See the celebrity cast of Egypt in England at The National Portrait Gallery
The man who risked death sketching the monuments of Cairo on scraps of paper hidden in his hand.
The man whose Ancient Egyptian sarcophagus was buried in a mausoleum with the longest echo in Europe.
The hero whose mistress thought he should be made Viscount Pyramid and Baron Crocodile.
The architect who paid as much for a single Egyptian antiquity as the British Museum did for a whole collection.
The pioneer Egyptologist who had to flee England to avoid scandal, and could only return on Sundays.
The painter who added extra slaves to a picture when its buyer complained that there weren’t enough to haul the giant stone lion in it.
