Thomas Pingo
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Thomas Pingo (1714–1776) was an English medallist and die engraver. He worked for the Royal Mint in London. Originally thought to have come from Italy in 1742, and born there in 1692,L. Forrer, Biographical Dictionary of Medallists, Volume IV, London 1909, pp. 555–560.L. Forrer, Biographical Dictionary of Medallists, Volume VIII, London 1930, p. 135-136 he was in fact the son of Thomas Pingo Sr (1688 – after 1743) of Plumbtree Court, London. The Pingo family first appeared in London in the 1650s in the Parish of St Martins-in-the-Fields.Christopher Eimer, The Pingo Family, British Art Medal Trust, London 1998, p.12-17.
His subjects included Charles Edward Stuart (Bonny Prince Charlie, King George III of Great Britain and Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany, last Prince-Bishop of Osnabrück (1763–1827)). His was appointed Assistant Engraver at the Mint in 1771. The same year, Pingo engraved the dies used for the Botetourt Medals of the College of William & Mary in Virginia.{{cite journal|url=https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/book/549379?page=115|title=The Botetourt Scholastic Medals Awarded by the College of William and Mary, 1772–1775|first=Raymond H.|last=Williamson|journal=The Virginia Numismatist|publisher=Virginia Numismatic Association|date=September 1983|volume=19|issue=3|via=Newman Numismatic Portal at Washington University in St. Louis}}
Private life
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His daughter Mary Pingo was an artist and designer;{{Cite web |date=2018-10-02 |title=Women artists and Design Drawings in Eighteenth-Century London • V&A Blog |url=https://www.vam.ac.uk/blog/projects/female-artists-in-the-eighteenth-century-and-their-design-drawings |access-date=2023-01-20 |website=V&A Blog |language=en-US}} baptised in 1741, she died unmarried in 1819.{{Citation |title=The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |date=2004-09-23 |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/63939 |work=The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |pages=ref:odnb/63939 |editor-last=Matthew |editor-first=H. C. G. |place=Oxford |publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/63939 |access-date=2023-01-20 |editor2-last=Harrison |editor2-first=B.|url-access=subscription }} Their sons Lewis Pingo (baptised 1743–1830) and John Pingo (baptised 1738–1827) also became noted medallists, Lewis succeeding his father as the Mint's Assistant Engraver in 1776. Another son, Benjamin Pingo (1749–94), was Rouge Dragon Pursuivant (1780–1786) and York Herald (1786–1794) in the College of Arms.
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