Myrtle Florence Broome was a British Egyptologist and artist known for her illustrated work with Amice Calverley on the Temple of Seti I at Abydos in Egypt and her paintings of Egyptian village life in the 1920s and 1930s.
13 Facts About Myrtle Broome
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Myrtle Florence Broome was born on 22 February 1888 in Muswell Hill, London, England to Eleanor Slater and Washington Herbert Broome.
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Myrtle Broome received her art training at a school in Bushey founded by Sir Hubert von Herkomer.
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Myrtle Broome's teachers were Sir Flinders Petrie and Margaret Murray.
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In 1927, Broome was invited to participate in a project being conducted in Egypt by the British School of Archeology.
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In 1929, Myrtle Broome returned to Egypt to work as an artist with Canadian epigrapher Amice Calverley.
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Myrtle Broome retired from Egyptology in 1937 and returned to England due to her father's illness.
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Myrtle Broome later painted a number of watercolours of Egyptian villages and the surrounding landscape.
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Myrtle Broome's father, Washington Herbert Myrtle Broome was a music and book publisher.
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Myrtle Broome was a contemporary of William Morris, an influential designer in the British Arts and Crafts movement.
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In 1907, W Broome built a house in Bushey that is listed as a historically interesting building with Historic England.
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Myrtle Broome created painted panels and decorations throughout the house.
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Myrtle Broome is mentioned as being a designer and a craft worker, who designed for Liberty.