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Also Known As	Humfry Gilbert Garth Payne
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

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George Smith

George Smith

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John Garstang

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Sir Arthur Evans

Sir Arthur Evans

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Sir Mortimer Wheeler

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Roger Fry

British art critic and painter

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Geoffrey Wainwright

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Leonard Woolley

Sir Leonard Woolley

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Sir Aurel Stein

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Sir John Hubert Marshall

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Mary Leakey stands beside a large fiberglass cast of ancient hominid footprints, holding the edge and looking toward the camera.

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

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Dame Kathleen Kenyon

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Kahn, Otto Hermann

Otto Hermann Kahn

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Wallace, Sir Richard, Baronet

Sir Richard Wallace, Baronet

British art collector

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Clive Bell

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