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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He also exhibited at the Paris Salon (Societe des Artistes francais)
1914 three medals in bronze: Portrait of Murray Marks; - Sir
Lawrence Guillemard; - International Medical Congress, 19I3.
BROWN, CHARLES (B.D.M., Vol. I, 1904, p. 298). Raspe gives
the following list of this Engraver's productions; they are all intaglios, when not otherwise mentioned: Ganymede, carnelian
(signed: C. BROWN INV.); - A dog setting, carnelian; - Two
greyhounds in a chain, carnelian; - A greyhound lying; - Stag
attacked by four dogs, carnelian; - Head of Neptune, carnelian
(2 var.); - Apollo and Cupid, carnelian; - Phoebus in a car
drawn by two horses, preceded by Cupid holding torch, carnelian
(signed. C. BROWN); - Head of Bacchus, sardonyx; - Herakles
seated on a rock, carnelian (sev. var.); - Cupid and Psyche,
yellow carnelian; - Busts of Venus and Mars, side by side, carnelian; - Leander and Hero (2 var. in onyx, and rock crystal);
Head of Paris, carnelian; - Pyrrhus presented to Glaucias, carnelian; - Head of Demosthenes, cameo; - Milo of Croton, white
carnelian; - Philosopher seated at a table, carnelian; - Two lions
couchant; - Cock pecking out of a cornucopiae, cameo; - Two
stags and a hind in a forest, sardonyx, and chalcedony (2 var.);Dionysiac bull, carnelian; - Horse frightened by a lion; - Head
of Ariadne, yellow carnelian; - Bust of Mars, carnelian; - Bust
of Hannibal, onyx, etc.
Charles Brown was born in I749, and died on I. June I795; he
was a brother of William Brown, worked in Paris and London; exhibited at the Royal Academy from 177I-1785, cameos and intaglios
representing classical subjects and natural history.
Vide WILLIAM BROWN infra.
The two brothers executed a number of gems in conjunction.
BROWN, G. (Brit.). With this signature is a medal of Constantine
Henry Phipps, Earl of Mulgrave, 1837 (iE, 51 mill.).
BROWN, GEORGE (Irish). Seal-engraver, born about 1786, died
1827. "He worked in Fownes Street in the early part of the
nineteenth century, and was Seal-Engraver to several Lords-Lieutenant. He exhibited impressions of seals and engraved gems at
various exhibitions in Dublin from I8I3 to I821, and at the Royal
Hibernian Academy in 1826 and I829. (Strickland, A Dictionary
of irish Artists, I913.
BROWN, H. (B.D.M., Vol. I, I904, p. 298). Die-sinker of the
middle years of the nineteenth century, by whom is a Crystal
Palace Shakespeare Medal, and also a Good Conduct medal.