An Afternoon with Dr Campbell Price

Campbell will be speaking on:

Ancient Egyptian Faces: The Art of Winifred Brunton and Others?

The South African-born artist Winifred Brunton (1880-1959) was an Egyptologist and a skilled painter of watercolour miniatures. More than most, she contributed to how many people viewed the ancient Egyptians by recreating the faces of royals and elites based on surviving representations and on the mummified bodies attributed to certain individuals. Brunton contributions mark a significant point in knowledge of the ancient Egyptian face and act as forerunner of later scientific facial approximations. Theselectures discuss the importance of Brunton and other artists and writers in the search for the elusive faces of ancient Egyptians.About the speaker:Dr Campbell Price received a BA, MA and PhD in Egyptology from the University of Liverpool, where now he is an Honorary Research Fellow. Since 2011, he has been Curator of Egypt and Sudan at Manchester Museum, part of the University of Manchester, one of the UK’s largest Egyptology collections. He was Chair of Trustees at the Egypt Exploration Society 2021- 2025.

Campbell has undertaken fieldwork in Egypt at the sites of Zawiyet Umm el-Rakham, Saqqara and at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. He has published widely on ancient Egyptian material culture and its interpretation. Recent books include Brief Histories: Ancient Egypt (Orion, 2024) and (with Stephanie Boonstra) Ancient Egypt in 50 Discoveries (Egypt Exploration Society 2025). Current research centres on understandings of the ancient Egyptian face in art history, museum encounters and popular culture.

Image credit: Egyptology Scotland