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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"The modelling of the new One-cent piece in 1909 was to
Brenner other than a chance government commission. He had
learned that the common coins of a people may become the spreaders
of a sense of what is true in line and contour and proportion
more readily than paintings or statuary, the scattered forms of architecture, more widespread even than the photograph or the moving
picture, and more responsive to the moulding influence of the
artist " (loc. cit., p. I).
" But the designing of coins is in reality but a small part of the
work of this craftsman and sculptor. In the words of Mr. Kellogg,
Victor Brenner has shown his mastery of portraiture in bas-relief in
his heads of: "Hay the diplomat; Emerson the philosopher; Evarts
the lawyer, with his deep inseeing eyes; Huntington the railroad
builder, who spanned mountain and desert, with eyes and background giving a curious effect of a searchlight of a locomotive;
Swasey, the telescope builder, whose lenses pierced the farthest
heavens; and a score of others." In the fountain memorial to the
donor of Schenley Park, Pittsburgh, which was unveiled during
the present year, Brenner has treated the mythological subject
of Pan in a classic spirit- " a gay unspoiled conception kindred to
the effrontery with which some little natural park breaks into our
tamed and deadening city landscape. "
Brenner's work is represented in the Paris Mint; Munich Glyptotek;
Vienna Numismatic Society; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New
York; and American Numismatic Society; Luxembourg Museum,
Paris; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He is a member of the American Numismatic Society, National Sculpture Society, etc. He took
part in the discussions at the Brussels International Numismatic
Congress, 1910.
At the New York Medallic Exhibition, March I9I0, he exhibited
the following Medals and Plaquettes: Professor Adolph Werner,
New York; iE. 46 x 64 mill.; - C. Delacour; - The Lincoln
medal; - Dr. Charles Rabutot; - Abraham Lincoln; - Commemorative medal of the Visit of Prince Henry of Prussia, 1902;
- J. Sanford Saltus; - Mm" Ernest Raynaud; - Portrait-medallion; - Spanish War Medal; - De Vinne Plaquette; - John
Paul Jones; - Dr Rupert Martin; - Dr Otto Binswanger, of Iena;
- Anita Stuart; - Harvard University medal; - Norman Wait
Harris Prize; - JuliaW. Oettinger; -CarlSchurz, 1908;- Spencer
Trask (2 models); - Shepherdess; - Charities and Correction
medal; - The Wright medal; - Rene; - Amerigo Vespucci;The John Fritz medal (For Scientific or Industrial Achievement);
-Dr Dumoutier of Paris; - New Engineering Society Building;
Salomon Loeb; -- International Tuberculosis Congress, Washington, I908; - The James Mc Neill Whistler medal; -- Edward B.