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House Brunton is a residential property in Berea, Johannesburg, South Africa designed by the renowned firm of Henry Seton Morris and Cottrill. The house was completed in 1906 and takes its name from the original occupants, the celebrated painter Winifred Brunton and her husband, Guy Brunton who was an Egyptologist and director of Cairo Museum. The house is situated on the corner of Primrose Terrace and Fife Street and is currently used as a beer hall. The house has two storeys with a red tile roof and white washed walls. ==Winifred Brunton== Winifred Mabel Brunton (nee Newberry) was born 6 May 1880 and died 29 January 1959. She was one of three daughters born to Charles and Elizabeth Newberry, who built and lived in the Prynnsberg mansion in Clocolan from the 1880s.〔Sunday Times newspaper. 18 February 1996, article by Anthea Bristowe. 10〕 Winnifred studied art in South Africa and at the Slade School. She later exhibited at the Royal Academy and was a member of the Royal Society of British Artists and the Royal Miniature Society. She married Guy Brunton (1878-1948), a respected Egyptologist and one-time Assistant Keeper of the Cairo Museum. They retired to South Africa and brought with thema a large collection of Egyptian Antiquities.〔Property Auction literature: The Contents of the Manor House, Prynnsberg. Messrs Roderick & Martin of Bloemfontein. 1996. Held in the Johannesburg Heritage Foundation Archive.〕 Works by Winifred Brunton include: * Murals with Egyptian theme, and family miniatures, at Prynnsberg, Clocolan * Illustrations for the book ‘Kings and Queens of Ancient Egypt’ (1926) * Illustrations for the book ‘Great Ones of Ancient Egypt’(1929)〔Griffith Institute Archive〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「House Brunton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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