Winifred Brunton

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Winifred Mabel Brunton (1880 - 1959)[1] was a painter from South Africa most famous for her haunting portraits of Egyptian pharaohs, 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 Brunton. One of Brunton's most well acclaimed works was her unrealistic interpretation of the young Egyptian Pharaoh King,Tutankhamen.