STIGLMAYER, JOHANN BAPTIST, an eminent metal-founder of Munich, was the son of a poor blacksmith, and was born at Fürstenfeldbruck, near Munich, on the 18th October 1791. The boy originally acquired the art of drawing by copying some illustrative wood-cuts of an old convent in possession of his father. Having been placed with a goldsmith of Munich, he by his industry and good conduct recommended himself to the director of the Bavarian mint, who procured him admission into the academy in 1810. This was the means of introducing him to the notice of the king, who in 1819 sent him to Italy to complete his studies. While in Rome Stiglmayer's attention was drawn to the art of metal-founding by Ludwig, then crown-prince of Bavaria. After spending a year or two in the study of metal castings he returned to Munich in 1822, and set to work in 1826 at the royal bronze-foundry, and turned out more extensive castings than any other man of modern times. He executed numerous monuments of his own planning, but generally he preferred following the designs of Schwantner, Thorwaldsen, and Rauch. He died on the 2d of March 1844, the day on which his nephew, assistant and successor, Ferdinand Miller, cast the colossal statue of Goethe, designed by Schwantner, for the city of Frankfurt.