Biographical dictionary of medallists: coin, gem, and seal-engravers, mint-masters, &c., ancient and modern, with references to their works B. C. 500-A. D. 1900; compiled by L. Forrer ...

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reign, and he was most probably the Designer and Die-cutter of the
third coinage of 1503, bearing the King's profile portraits, which
are considered as "works of the highest art in their own kind"
(cf. Keary, Coins and Medals, 1894) and give their author a prominent place amongst the founders of English medallic portraiture.
BRUEL, LUDWIG AUGUST (B.D.M., Vol. I, r904, p. 300). Mintmaster at Hanover, 1818-I820, Mint-mark L.B or L.A.B. on
George III. Conventions coins of those dates; I820-1830, L.B or B
on Hanoverian currency of George IV; I830-I837 B on Hanoverian
currency of William IV.; I837-r838 B on coins of King Ernest
Augustus, AT. Double Pistole 1838, etc.
BRUEL, THEODOR WILHELM (Germ.). Mint-master at Hanover,
appointed on 8. May I844-I851, Mint-mark B on currency of
Ernest Augustus; I85i to i. December 1868, when he retired;
Mint-mark B on currency of George V. The B occurs on the memorial medal of George V, 1878.
BRUINZEELS, HIERONYMUS (Dutch). Mint-master at Middleburgh,
I580-1586.
BRUKMANN, PETER (B.D.M., Vol. I, I904, p. 299). This artist
engraved Thalers and Ducats for Canton Zurich 18io, 1813 and
I826. Cf. E. Reinhart, Schw. Kstlr.-Lex., Suppl., 72. There is also
a medal of Luther, I817, Third Centenary of the Reformation, at
Heilbronn (A., 38 mill.).
BRULE, CHARLES (French). Contemporary Sculptor, born at
Grenoble (Isere); pupil of M. Bargas. At the Salon of I906 he
exhibited two medals: Louis XI.; - Portrait of Raymonde, I907.
Maximilienne Eugenie Hiano; - Robert; - Female Portrait;Richard Wagner; - Dead Swallow; - 1908. La Fievre; - Un
vieux de Ploermel; - Hector Berlioz.
BRUN, H. (French). Sculptor of the end of the eighteenth century
and early part of the nineteenth. M. Florange has a medal, by him,
cast in bronze, of Francois Louis Savart (I780-I828).
BRUNE, WILHELM (Germ.). Moneyer at Worms, circ. I49r.
BRUNER (or BRUNNER), THOMAN (Swiss). " Guldin Muntzer"
(coiner of Gulden) at Basle; died about 1504. Cf. M. A. Ruegg,
Schw. Kstlr.-Lex., Slppl., 72, Rev. Sulisse num., 1915. At a meeting
of the Basle moneyers, in September I497, under the presidency
of Ritter Hermann von Epfingen as representative of King Maximilian, Meister Thomas Bruinner was appointed Mint-master general
for the ' Rappenminzbund '.