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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BROWN, MORTIMER (Brit.). Contemporary Sculptor; exhibited at
the Royal. Academy, 909, a Portrait-medallion in bronze of
Abraham Lincoln.
He began exhibiting sculpture at the R.Acad in I898, and has
produced some notable works: Aeneas leaving Troy; John the
Baptist; Bust of N. Denholm Davis, etc.
BROWN, PERCY (Brit.). Principal of the Government School of
Art, Calcutta; D signer, and Modeller of the reverse of the silver
coinage of British India dated 1911 and after.
Rupee, 1911.
BROWN, THOMAS (Brit.). Gem-engraver; exhibited at the Royal
Academy I842, The Race; an intaglio impression.
BROWN, WILLIAM (B.D.M., Vol. I, I904, p. 298). By this clever
Gern-engraver of whom Prof. Dalton says, "that he has scarcely
yet been accorded the recognition which he deserves, and that he
was chiefly distinguished for his portraits, which are spirited and full
of character" are the following intaglios and cameos: Head of
Jupiter, carnelian (signed: W.BROWN); - Leda and the swan,
yellow carnelian (signed: W.B.); - Hebe, carnelian; - Hebe
seated feeding eagle, carnelian; - Ganymede, carnelian (signed:
W.BROWN F.); - The Rape of Proserpine, white carnelian (W.
BROWN); - Ceres and Plenty, carnelian; - Diana, carnelian
(W. BROWN INVT.); - Salmacis embracing Hermaphroditus, chalcedony; -Neptune standing in a shell drawn by two hippocamps
(2 var.); - Head of Apollo, carnelian; - Terpsichore dancing,
carnelian; - Mask with pedum and dagger; - Head of Hygiaea,
carnelian; - Head of Bacchus, carnelian; - Head of Ariadne,
topaz; - A Bacchanalian triumph, carnelian; - Bust of a young
Bacchant; - Herakles judging between Wisdom and Pleasure, carnelian; - Herakles strangling the lion, chalcedony (2 var.); -
Head of Herakles and Dejaneira, carnelian (2 var.); - Head of
Omphale in lion's skin, carnelian; - Head of Venus, yellow carnelian; - Venus sitting on a rock, and Cupid resting on one of