MAES Zoom: Campbell Price - The Art and Imagination of Winifred Brunton

Facing Pharaohs: The Art and Imagination of Winifred Brunton

The South African born archaeologist and painter Winifred Brunton (1880-1959) is well-known to Egyptophiles for her series of watercolour miniatures of the kings, queens and elites of Pharaonic Egypt. Reassessment of her some of her personal correspondence held at the Griffith Institute, Oxford, has revealed Brunton's attitude to her own work and its worth. This lecture uses this material to discuss her (re)imaginings of ancient Egyptian faces as a forerunner to more modern reconstruction techniques.

Dr Campbell Price is Curator of Egypt and Sudan at the Manchester Museum, part of the University of Manchester and European Museum of the Year 2025. He is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool and was Chair of the EES Board of Trustees from 2021 to 2025. He is the author of several books, including Brief Histories: Ancient Egypt and (with Stephanie Boonstra) Ancient Egypt in 50 Discoveries. His current research focuses on interpretations of the ancient Egyptian face.

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