Stained-glass artist in Paris. He was the owner of the atelier ‘Peinture sur Verre & Vitrerie d’Art pour églises & Appartements, maison fondée en 1794’ at Rue Chevert 12 in Paris.
A signed stained-glass window dating to 1872 may be found in the church of Saint-Martin de Chevreuse (Île-de-France). Bruin had also presented his works at the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1878 (Keller, 2020, p. 35; Luneau, 2006, pp. 200–202, 224, 239).

Keller, S. (2020). “De véritables merveilles d’exécution”. Les vitraux du fumoir arabe d’Henri Moser. In Giese, F., Volait, M. & Varela Braga, A. (eds.). À l’orientale. Collecting, Displaying and Appropriating Islamic Art and Architecture in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (28–38). Leiden/Boston: Brill.

Luneau, J.-F. (2006). Félix Gaudin: peintre-verrier et mosaïste, 1851–1930. Clermont-Ferrand: Presses universitaires Blaise-Pascal.