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ABRAHAM SIMON (1622-1692)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 124 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ABRAHAM SIMON (1622-1692)  ,
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English medallist and modeller, was born in
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Yorkshire in 1622 . He was originally intended for the church, but turned his attention to
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art, and, after studying in Holland, proceeded to Sweden, where he was employed by Queen Christina, in whose train he travelled to Paris . He returned to England before the outbreak of the
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Civil War, and attained celebrity by his medals and portraits modelled in
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wax . During the
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Commonwealth he executed many medals of leading parliamentarians, and at the Restoration he was patronized by Charles II., from whom he received a
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hundred guineas for his portrait designed as a medal for the proposed order of the Royal Oak . Having incurred the displeasure of the duke of York, he lost the favour of the court, and died in obscurity in 1692 . Among the more interesting of his medals are those of the 2nd
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earl of Dunfermline, the 2nd earl of Lauderdale and the 1st earl of Loudon; that of the duke of Albemarle, and many other
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fine medals, were modelled by Abraham Simon and chased by his
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brother Thomas Simon (q.v.) .

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