🔍
Advanced Search

The son of Jean Roettiers, Norbert was apprenticed to his father and worked at the London mint from 1684-95, becoming assistant engraver in 1690. He later went to France where he was given a position at the mint through his uncle Joseph Roettiers, whom he succeeded as engraver general in 1703. See Forrer 5, pp. 183-87; 8, p. 358; Thieme-Becker 28, p. 508. --- from The Molinari Collection, Andrea S. Norris and Ingrid Weber, Published by Bowdoin College, 1976