Elisabeth R. O’Connell

Portraits of an unknown woman (c.160-70) and of a boy called Eutyches (c.100-150).

The Annual Report​ of the Director of the National Gallery for 1888 announced the display of three painted wooden panels ‘under glass’. The panels were almost two thousand years old and had been unearthed the year before from Roman-period cemeteries in Hawara, in the Fayum basin in Egypt,...