List of medallists

Medal of the Emperor John VIII Palaiologos during his visit to Florence, by Pisanello (1438). This was the first portrait medal. The legend reads, in Greek: "John the Palaiologos, basileus and autokrator of the Romans".

A medalist (American English) or medallist (British English) is an artist who designs medals, plaquettes, badges, coins and similar small works in relief in metal. Art medals are a well-known and highly collected form of small bronze sculpture, most often in bronze, and are considered a form of exonumia. "Medalist/medallist" is confusingly the same word used in sport and other areas (but not usually in military contexts) for the winner of a medal as an award. Medallists very often also design, or produce the dies for coins as well. In modern times medallists are mostly primarily sculptors of larger works, but in the past the number of medals and coins produced were sufficient to allow specialists who spent most of their career producing them. Medallists are also often confusingly referred to as "engravers" in reference works, referring to the "engraving" of dies, although this is often in fact not the technique used; however many also worked in engraving the technique in printmaking.

Art medals have been produced since the late Renaissance period, and, after some classical precedents and Late Medieval revivals, the form was essentially invented by Pisanello, who is credited with the first portrait medal, which has remained a very popular type. He cast them like bronze sculptures, rather than minting them like coins.

Significant medallic artists by nationality

An incomplete list, biased towards the 19th-century onwards; see also Category:Medallists. (Note: Where an artist is best known by other than his first given name, the commonly used name is highlighted in boldface.)

American medallic artists

Medal (Obverse) for The Society of Medalists designed by Anthony de Francisci, 1935
Medal (Reverse) for The Society of Medalists designed by de Francisci, 1935
United States coin, the 1933 Double Eagle, designed by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, who also produced artistic medals

Argentine medallic artists

Australian medallic artists

Medals for the 1908 Olympic Games, designed by Sir Edgar Bertram Mackennal

Austrian medallic artists

Belgian medallic artists

British medallic artists

Posthumous medallic portrait of William Wyon by his son L. C. Wyon (1854). Both designed coins for Queen Victoria

Canadian medallic artists

Croatian medallic artists

Czech medallic artists

Danish medallic artists

Dutch medallic artists

Finnish medallic artists

French medallic artists

Medal in silver commissioned from Augustin Dupré and issued in 1784 by the American republic to honor Admiral Suffren

German medallic artists

Hungarian medallic artists

Irish medallic artists

Israeli medallic artists

Italian medallic artists

Medallion commemorating the Battle of White Mountain with portrait of Emperor Ferdinand II by Giovanni Pietro de Pomis

Japanese medallic artists

Latvian medallic artists

Lithuanian medallic artists

Monégasque (Monaco) medallic artists

Netherlands medallic artists

New Zealand medallic artists

Norwegian medallic artists

Polish medallic artists

Portuguese medallic artists

Romanian medallic artists

Russian medallic artists

Slovak medallic artists

South African medallic artists

Spanish medallic artists

Swedish medallic artists

Swiss medallic artists

Mints Specializing in Art Medals

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