Winifred Brunton
Winifred Mabel Brunton née Newberry | |
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 Winifred Mabel Brunton née Newberry in her studio | |
| Born | 6 May 1880 |
| Died | 29 January 1959 (aged 78) Clocolan , Orange Free State, South Africa |
| Education | University College London (UCL) |
| Known for | Painting, Egyptology |
| Movement | Post-Impressionism |
Winifred Mabel Brunton née Newberry (6 May 1880 – 29 January 1959
Life
Winifred Newberry was born in 1880 in the Orange Free State South Africa. Her father, Charles Newberry, a millionaire who made his money in Kimberly, was the builder of Prynnsberg Estate. Her mother Elizabeth was the daughter of a missionary to Moshoeshoe I and was herself intensely artistic. Winifred was presented at court in 1898 in London when she presumably met Guy Brunton, an Egyptologist who later became her husband.
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Popular culture
Her portraits have been hugely influential and defined the faces of the Pharaohs and the Queens in Popular culture and have been adopted in many films and documentaries.
Publications
1926. Kings and Queens of Ancient Egypt. Portraits by Winifred Brunton. History by Eminent Egyptologists. London.
1929. Great Ones of Ancient Egypt. Portraits by Winifred Brunton. Historical Studies by various Egyptologists
References
- ^ "Winifred Mabel Newberry" British 1820 Settlers to South Africa 22 September 2010
- ^ Sanborn, Ashton (4 December 1926). "Kings and Queens of Ancient Egypt, by Winifred Brunton". The Saturday Review. p. 368.
- ^ Sheppard, K.L. 2013. The Life of Margaret Alice Murray. A Woman's Work in Archaeology. New York: Lexington Books, pp. 91–94.
- ^ Petrie, H. 1914. The British School of Archaeology in Egypt. Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 1(3): 185-86.
- ^ Brunton, G. and Caton-Thompson, G. 1928. The Badarian Civilisation. London: British School of Archaeology in Egypt.
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