Winifred Mabel Brunton (1880 - 1959)
http://www.lordbrunton.com/cameron/default.asp?id=900012&seq=0 was a painter from
South AfricaThe Republic of South Africa is a country located at the southern tip of Africa, with a coastline on the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. To the north lie Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe, to the east are Mozambique and Swaziland, while Lesotho is an independent country surrounded by South Africa.Modern...
most famous for her haunting portraits of
EgyptAncient Egypt was an ancient civilization of eastern North Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River in what is now the modern country of Egypt. The civilization coalesced around 3150 BC with the political unification of Upper and Lower Egypt under the first pharaoh, and...
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pharaohPharaoh is a title used in many modern discussions of the ancient Egyptian rulers of all periods. In antiquity this title began to be used for the ruler who was the religious and political leader of united ancient Egypt. This was true only during the New Kingdom, specifically during the middle of...
s, published in the early part of the 20th century as
Kings and Queens of Ancient Egypt (1926) and
Great Ones of Ancient Egypt (1929).
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Winifred Mabel Brunton (1880 - 1959)
http://www.lordbrunton.com/cameron/default.asp?id=900012&seq=0 was a painter from
South AfricaThe Republic of South Africa is a country located at the southern tip of Africa, with a coastline on the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. To the north lie Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe, to the east are Mozambique and Swaziland, while Lesotho is an independent country surrounded by South Africa.Modern...
most famous for her haunting portraits of
EgyptAncient Egypt was an ancient civilization of eastern North Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River in what is now the modern country of Egypt. The civilization coalesced around 3150 BC with the political unification of Upper and Lower Egypt under the first pharaoh, and...
ian
pharaohPharaoh is a title used in many modern discussions of the ancient Egyptian rulers of all periods. In antiquity this title began to be used for the ruler who was the religious and political leader of united ancient Egypt. This was true only during the New Kingdom, specifically during the middle of...
s, published in the early part of the 20th century as
Kings and Queens of Ancient Egypt (1926) and
Great Ones of Ancient Egypt (1929). She was the wife of the British Egyptologist
Guy BruntonGuy Brunton OBE was an English archaeologist and Egyptologist who revealed the Badarian culture of prehistoric Egypt.A student of Sir Flinders Petrie, Brunton became Assistant Director of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo in 1931....
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One of Brunton's most well acclaimed works was her "unrealistic" interpretation of the young Egyptian Pharaoh King,Tutankhamen.