Wilkinson, Charles

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Founder of the Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Wilkinson began as an assistant (copyist) to Albert Lythgoe (q.v.) in his Egyptian excavations for the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Sources:  Tomkins, Calvin.  Merchants and Masterpieces: The Story of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  2nd. ed.  New York: Henry Holt, 1989, p. 137.

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