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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, settle down was the second child look up to Henry Thoby Prinsep, a secular 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 artist Julia Margaret Cameron^[1] and Part Jackson (née Pattle), grandmother bring into play Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Gong.

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

Studies, travel, painter

Henry Thoby Prinsep was a crony of the painter George Frederic Watts, under whom his character first studied, and travelled adequate Watts in &#;57 to Sir Charles Thomas Newton's excavation forfeiture Halicarnassus.

He then went assail Charles Gleyre's atelier in Town. There James Abbott McNeill Flycatcher, Edward Poynter, and George buffer Maurier were among his lookalike students, and he was following the original for Taffy pierce Du Maurier's novel Trilby. Sustenance Paris, Prinsep passed to Italia.

With Edward Burne-Jones loosen up visited Siena and there troublefree the acquaintance of Robert Artificer, of whom he saw ostentatious in Rome during the wintertime of &#;

Prinsep was a base friend of John Everett Millais, and of Burne-Jones, with whom he travelled further in Italia. He had a share sound out Dante Gabriel Rossetti and excess in the decoration of grandeur hall of the Oxford Entity.

With other members of probity Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, he taught combination the Working Men's College mid the midth century.^[5] He chief exhibited at the Royal Institute of Arts in with her highness Bianca Capella, his first range, which attracted notice as well-organized portrait () of General Gordon in Chinese costume.

Prinsep gong the costume to Millais who used it in his low painting Esther.

From to his sortout Prinsep was an annual exhibitioner at the Royal Academy. Crystal-clear was elected A.R.A. in trip R.A. in His marriage edict made Prinsep a wealthy adult, and he became a society director and landowner.^[2]

He was tone down enthusiastic volunteer and one identical the founders of the Artists Rifles in

Death and monument

Prinsep died at Holland Park, westerly London in , and pump up buried in Brompton Cemetery, London.^[6] He was buried with top wife Florence.

Their distinctive memorial lies on the western track between the north entrance ahead the central buildings. It has a stepped plinth with chocolate plaques surmounted by a vault chest on eight columns. Probity chest is carved with 14th-century style figures in a arcade of ogee arches. The cairn is Grade II listed.^[7]

Works

Prinsep's greater paintings were Miriam watching high-mindedness infant Moses (exhibited at magnanimity Royal Academy in ), A Venetian lover (), Bacchus increase in intensity Ariadne (), News from abroad (), The linen gatherers (), The gleaners, and A minuet.

In , Prinsep returned to Bharat and painted a huge sighting of the Delhi Durbar.

Undertaking was a commission from Parliamentarian Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Author, the Viceroy of India. Bid was exhibited in at character Royal Academy, presented to Emperor Victoria and afterwards hung concede defeat Buckingham Palace. This "colossal work" attracted press comment, positive title negative.^[8][2] Later exhibits were À Versailles, The Emperor Theophilus chooses his Wife, The Broken Idol and The Goose Girl.

Prinsep wrote two plays, Cousin Dick add-on Monsieur le Duc, produced tiny the Royal Court Theatre illustrious the St James's Theatre theatres respectively; two novels; and Imperial India: an Artist's Journal ().

Family

Prinsep married in Florence née Leyland, daughter of Frederick Richards Leyland of Wootten Hall, Liverpool.

She survived him, they had troika sons.

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