The finest collection of ancient portraits from Egypt that has found its way to England is undoubtedly that brought over by Professor Flinders Petrie in 1889, and exhibited by him in that year at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly. It had been found during the previous winter months in the cemetery of Hawara, in the Fayyum. This fine series of portraits, for such they evidently were, had been painted in wax upon wooden panels, and, according to the opinion of Professor Petrie, had been done after death. They are mostly to be seen in the British Museum and National Gallery, but some are in private hands.