Coins and Historical Medals

Royal Academy of Arts, a matt silver award medal by T. Brock, bust of Edward VII right, rev. the torso Belvedere, edge named (Francis E. Fitzjohn Crisp for the Painting of a Figure from the Life, Dec. 9, 1905), 55mm, 86.70g (BHM –; E 1862). About extremely fine £100-£150

Francis Edward Fitzjohn Crisp (1883-1915), St John’s Wood, London, artist; attended the Royal Academy 1903-8, gold medallist in 1907. At the outbreak of War Crisp served as a corporal in F Company, 28th County of London Battalion (The Artists’ Rifles) and disembarked in France on 26 October 1914, having joined the unit some two years previously. At the time of his death, on 5 January 1915 when attached to the Grenadier Guards, he was the first in his unit to be killed after the Christmas Armistice