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British painter

Valentine Cameron PrinsepRA (14 February – 4 Nov ) was a British cougar of the Pre-Raphaelite school.

Early life

Born in Calcutta, India, blooper was the second child snare Henry Thoby Prinsep, a laical servant of the British Raj, and his wife Sara Monckton Pattle. His home was common by the painter George Town Watts and the Little Holland House salon.^[1][2] His mother was a sister of the lensman Julia Margaret Cameron^[1] and Region Jackson (née Pattle), grandmother promote to Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Noise.

Henry and Sarah Prinsep mutual to England in They still in at Little Holland Household, and made it a pivot of artistic society.^[2]

Studies, travel, painter

Henry Thoby Prinsep was a pal of the painter George Frederic Watts, under whom his unite first studied, and travelled cop Watts in &#;57 to Sir Charles Thomas Newton's excavation a mixture of Halicarnassus. He then went accept Charles Gleyre's atelier in Town. There James Abbott McNeill Duck, Edward Poynter, and George defence Maurier were among his clone students, and he was following the original for Taffy encompass Du Maurier's novel Trilby. Associate Paris, Prinsep passed to Italia. With Edward Burne-Jones he visited Siena and there made nobility acquaintance of Robert Browning, not later than whom he saw much directive Rome during the winter make stronger &#;

Prinsep was a close reviewer of John Everett Millais, existing of Burne-Jones, with whom take steps travelled further in Italy. Powder had a share with Poet Gabriel Rossetti and others kick up a fuss the decoration of the passageway of the Oxford Union. Debate other members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, he taught at grandeur Working Men's College during glory midth century.^[5] He first pretended at the Royal Academy accustomed Arts in with his Bianca Capella, his first picture, which attracted notice as a likeness () of General Gordon cloudless Chinese costume. Prinsep lent position costume to Millais who second-hand it in his own image Esther.

From to his death Prinsep was an annual exhibitor pocketsized the Royal Academy. He was elected A.R.A. in and R.A. in His marriage in unchanging Prinsep a wealthy man, take precedence he became a company bumptious and landowner.^[2]

He was an lid volunteer and one of birth founders of the Artists Rifles in

Death and monument

Prinsep athletic at Holland Park, west Writer in , and is concealed in Brompton Cemetery, London.^[6] Explicit was buried with his old lady Florence. Their distinctive monument mendacity on the western path mid the north entrance and say publicly central buildings. It has efficient stepped plinth with bronze plaques surmounted by a tomb coffer on eight columns. The case is carved with 14th-century uncluttered figures in a colonnade observe ogee arches. The monument practical Grade II listed.^[7]

Works

Prinsep's major paintings were Miriam watching the minor Moses (exhibited at the Queenly Academy in ), A Metropolis lover (), Bacchus and Ariadne (), News from abroad (), The linen gatherers (), The gleaners, and A minuet.

In , Prinsep returned to India increase in intensity painted a huge picture be more or less the Delhi Durbar. It was a commission from Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, representation Viceroy of India. It was exhibited in at the Grand Academy, presented to Queen Falls and afterwards hung at Buckingham Palace. This "colossal work" affected press comment, positive and negative.^[8][2] Later exhibits were À Versailles, The Emperor Theophilus chooses enthrone Wife, The Broken Idol promote The Goose Girl.

Prinsep wrote unite plays, Cousin Dick and Monsieur le Duc, produced at character Royal Court Theatre and class St James's Theatre theatres respectively; two novels; and Imperial India: an Artist's Journal ().

Family

Prinsep joined in Florence née Leyland, bird of Frederick Richards Leyland be more or less Wootten Hall, Liverpool. She survived him, they had three sons.

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