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Born February 19, 1902 • England
Died May 9, 1936 (aged 34) • Athens • Greece
Subjects Of Study Archaic period • visual arts • Corinth

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Winckelmann, Johann
Johann Winckelmann
German art historian
John Ruskin
John Ruskin
English writer and artist
Sir Flinders Petrie, detail of an oil painting by George Frederic Watts, 1900; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Sir Flinders Petrie
British archaeologist
Louis S.B. Leakey
Louis Leakey
Kenyan archaeologist and anthropologist
George Smith
George Smith
British Assyriologist
John Garstang
British archaeologist
Sir Arthur Evans, detail of an oil painting by Sir William Richmond, 1907; in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Sir Arthur Evans
British archaeologist
Sir Mortimer Wheeler
British archaeologist
Roger Fry
British art critic and painter
Geoffrey Wainwright
British archaeologist
Sir Aurel Stein
Hungarian-British archaeologist
Sir John Hubert Marshall
British archaeologist
Sir Leonard Woolley
British archaeologist
Leakey, Mary
Mary Douglas Leakey
Kenyan archaeologist
Portrait of William Michael Rossetti by Sir William Rothenstein, oil on canvas, 1909; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
William Michael Rossetti
English art critic
Layard, drawing by G.F. Watts; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Austen Henry Layard
British archaeologist
Dame Kathleen Kenyon
British archaeologist
Kahn, Otto Hermann
Otto Hermann Kahn
American businessman
Wallace, Sir Richard, Baronet
Sir Richard Wallace, Baronet
British art collector
Clive Bell
British critic