. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Among the group oi dislinguishcd artists working during that time in Turin were the Law brothers. Amedeo La\y ' (1777-1864) was descended from a Frencii family of engravers and sculptors who had Ix'en established since the early seventeen-hvindreds in Piedmont. His father Lorenzo, who studied in Paris with Pierre Germain, the goldsmith of the Royal Court, worked later as coin and medal engraver at the Turin mint. He left an impressive series of dies for a medallic history of the Savoy family, Storin melallica delta Real Casa di Savoia. The o
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Among the group oi dislinguishcd artists working during that time in Turin were the Law brothers. Amedeo La\y ' (1777-1864) was descended from a Frencii family of engravers and sculptors who had Ix'en established since the early seventeen-hvindreds in Piedmont. His father Lorenzo, who studied in Paris with Pierre Germain, the goldsmith of the Royal Court, worked later as coin and medal engraver at the Turin mint. He left an impressive series of dies for a medallic history of the Savoy family, Storin melallica delta Real Casa di Savoia. The older son Carlo Michele 2 (1765-1813) after studying a few vears in Paris, also worked, after 1789, at the Tin-in mint. Amedeo Lavy, the younger and more fortunate brother, led a highly diversified life. Well known as a sculptor of portrait busts, statues, and terra cottas (for the church in Castagnola), as an engraver of coin and medal dies, and as a designer of stamp and currency vignettes and of playing cards, his renown remained widespread and his popularity constant even during the changing regimes of the Savoy kings and Napoleon. Lavy started at the age of thirteen as an apprentice in the Turin mint, later completing his studies at the .â¢\cademy of Fine Arts. One of his first works was a copy of a portrait of Queen Christina of Sweden (1794). Two years later he engraved the dies for the coinage of Charles Emmanuel W of Savoy. The vicissitudes of the Napoleonic wars brought him into close contact with opposing factions, and he put his art at the service of them all. During the War of the Second Coalition (1799-1801) against France, he had the opportimity to see the Russian Commander Alexander SuvarofT and to model SuvarofFs portrait in A year later (1800) the French general .^ndrc Massena had his portrait done Ijy -Xmedeo Lavy. In the same year Lavy engraved the portrait of the First Consul on a medal celebrating Bonaparte's decisive victory at Marengo. The 20-fran
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