William Wyon

William Wyon RA (Birmingham 1795 – 29 October 1851), was official chief engraver at the Royal Mint from 1828 until his death.

He studied the works of John Flaxman, attended the schools of the Royal Academy, and gained a gold medal from the Society of Arts for a copy of the head of Ceres, and a second for an original group.

[4] Wyon is buried under a simple rectangular York stone slab at West Norwood Cemetery.

Under the influence of Flaxman, a master of relief sculpture, Wyon was a highly visible proponent of the Neoclassicist vogue.

[7] The name of William Wyon is well known among coin and medal collectors because of his prodigious output and artistic skill.

Posthumous medallic portrait of William Wyon by his son L. C. Wyon (1854)
Victoria Young Head by William Wyon, edited as a retro-pattern by the British medallist Donald R Golder for the Spink Patina Collection.
Family grave of William Wyon in West Norwood Cemetery