Winifred Mabel Brunton née Newberry (6 May 1880 in London

London

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, England

England

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 - 29 January 1959 in Clocolan

Clocolan

Clocolan, established in 1906, is a small town in the Free State province of South Africa. The Basotho called the place Hlohlolwane . New inhabitants mispronounced the name and called it Clocolan....

, Free State

Free State

The Free State is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Bloemfontein, which is also South Africa's judicial capital. Its historical origins lie in the Orange Free State Boer republic and later Orange Free State Province. The current borders of the province date from 1994 when the Bantustans...

, South Africa

South Africa

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 ) was a painter most famous for her portraits of Egypt

Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt was an ancient civilization of Northeastern Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River in what is now the modern country of Egypt. Egyptian civilization coalesced around 3150 BC with the political unification of Upper and Lower Egypt under the first pharaoh...

ian pharaoh

Pharaoh

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s, published as Kings and Queens of Ancient Egypt (1926) and Great Ones of Ancient Egypt (1929). She married Egyptologist Guy Brunton

Guy Brunton

Guy Brunton OBE was an English archaeologist and Egyptologist who discovered the Badarian culture. He married Winifred Newberry on 28 April 1906...

 on 28 April 1906. One of her most acclaimed works was her "unrealistic" interpretation of Tutankhamen.

Her father Charles was the builder of Prynnsberg Estate

Prynnsberg Estate

Prynnsberg was a manor built between 1881 and 1884 in Clocolan, Free State, South Africa by Charles Newberry who immigrated to South Africa in 1864 as a carpenter to join his older brother John, mining in Greytown and eventually gained enough holdings in the Kimberly diamond mining industry to...

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