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The name of William Wyon is well known among coin and medal collectors because of his prodigious output and artistic skill.
In his prolific output between 1816 and 1851 there is much to admire: the Three Graces pattern crown of 1817, the seated Britannia of the 1820s, the Lion sixpences and shillings of George IV, and a regal Una and the lion on the famous five-pound piece of 1839.
- The Great Engravers Collection
- A Family of Craftsmen
- The Three Graces
- The Battle to Be Chief Engraver
- A Royal Favourite
- Una and The Lion
- Stamps and More
- Lasting Fame
In 2019 the Royal Mint launched a new special collection called Great Engravers, celebrating the greatest artists to have worked on British coinage. Issued in various denominations, the first coin featured William Wyon's famed 'Una and the Lion'. Initially produced in 1839, this ground-breaking design was remastered using cutting-edge, twenty-first...
William Wyon was born in Birmingham in 1795 into a family of medallists and engravers. At the age of 14 he became apprenticed to his father, Peter Wyon, who was a die engraver at Matthew Boulton's Soho Mint. Surrounded by ground-breaking, steam-driven coining machinery, the young William gained first-hand experience of the technology that would cha...
William's career at the Royal Mint began in the aftermath of the Battle of Waterloo and the effective end of the Napoleonic Wars. While the national mood was joyous, decades of war had led to economic instability. To tackle this, the British government sought to stabilise the currency. The first step in this process became known as the Great Recoin...
The same year as William engraved the 'Three Graces', his cousin, Thomas Junior, died at the age of just 25. As Second Engraver, William might have expected promotion, especially considering the pressures on the Royal Mint caused by the recoingage programme. Instead, the post was left vacant and the responsibilities, salary and prestige were confer...
During his early career at the Royal Mint, William executed dies for coinage issued by several British monarchs, including George III, George IV and William IV. He achieved prominence, however, through his portraits of Queen Victoria. She first sat for him in 1834 as a young princess and it was William's effigy of the newly crowned Queen that found...
Through his tenure at the Royal Mint, William did much to elevate the art of coinage at to encourage artistic awareness in the general public. Among the most celebrated of his original, finely-wrought designs is his 'Una and the Lion' which appeared on the five-pound piece of 1839, opposite the 'Young Head' portrait. William's engraving depicted th...
Known for his productivity, William was the engraver behind at least 43 different coins issued in England, as well as many more for British colonies including Jersey, the West Indies, Gibraltar, Malta, Hong Kong, British India, New Grenada, Mauritius, the Ionian Islands, Ireland, New Brunswick, Penang and Ceylon. However, his artistic influence is ...
The consistently high quality of William's work was recognised with associate and later full membership of the Royal Academy of Arts. He was also the subject of a very complimentary memoir by Nicholas Carlisle that was privately issued during William's lifetime. His neoclassical style and the energy, realism and sensitivity of is engravings set him...
William wyon (1795–1851) Struck in history. A timeless collection revived with state-of-the-art innovation and technology. Learn more about on of the greatest engravers to work with The Royal Mint and discover William Wyon's legacy of spectacular coin designs.
One of the oldest plaster models in the Royal Mint Museum dates back to the mid-19th century and is as spectacular as the medal to which it relates. The Museum collection houses object relating to one of the finest engravers ever to produce designs for the coinage of Britain.
The iconic image of Queen Victoria as seen on the Penny Black, in 1840 the world’s first adhesive postage stamp, is based on the work of William Wyon. It was Rowland Hill who suggested Wyon’s image be used when he proposed methods for the prepayment of postage necessary after his reforms.
The Three Graces – William Wyon RA’s Early Career Masterpiece. Categories: Collect. Part of a numismatic dynasty – his uncle Thomas, cousin Thomas Junior and son Leonard all achieved prominence at The Royal Mint – William Wyon began working at Tower Hill in 1816.
