Leonard Cure Wyon
Active: 1853
Medallist
Worked in London
Institutional and Business Connections
Worked with Hunt and Roskell
Cut dies for 'a Portrait-medal of Gladstone, 1879' that was issued by Hunt and Roskell: see Forrer, vol. 2, (1904), p. 578 [summary].
Personal and Professional Connections
Collaborated with John Graham Lough
Lough as the 'designer of a Portrait-medal of Edward Forbes, engraved by L. C. Wyon, in 1854': see Forrer, vol. 3, (1907), p. 480.
Assumption made that this is John Graham Lough
Collaborated with Daniel Maclise
1851 (Presumed)
Maclise is listed in as the 'designer of a medal, engraved by L. C. Wyon, with portrait of the painter Turner, 1871 (Art Union series).' See Forrer, vol. 3, (1907), p. 525.
Collaborated with John Tenniel
1881 (Circa)
Tenniel is listed as the designer of 'L. C. Wyon's medal of the International Medical Congress, in London, 1881'. See Forrer, vol. 6, (1916), p. 47.
Employed John Pinches Snr
1851
Forrer states that after leaving the employment of William Wyon 1846-1851, Pinches was 'ocassionally employed by Leonard C. Wyon'. See Forrer, vol. 4, (1909), p. 548.
Descriptions of Practice
Listed as medallist Biographical Dictionary of Medallists, Coin, Gem, and Seal-Engravers, Mint Masters, &c., Ancient and Modern with References to their Works, B.C. 500 - A.D. 1900, Volume I, 1902 Biographical Dictionary of Medallists
Listed in Forrer, vol. 1, (1902), p. 188, as 'Medallist at London, 1853'.
Citing this record
'Leonard Cure Wyon', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib4_1238409603, accessed 30 Mar 2023]