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VALENTINE CAMERON PRINSEP (1838-1904)

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 350 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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VALENTINE See also:CAMERON See also:PRINSEP (1838-1904)  , See also:English artist, was See also:born on the 4th of See also:February 1838 . His See also:father, See also:Henry Thoby See also:Prinsep, who was for sixteen years a member of the See also:Council of See also:India, had settled at Little See also:Holland See also:House, which became a centre of See also:artistic society . Henry Prinsep was an intimate friend of G . F . See also:Watts, under whom his son first studied . Val Prinsep also worked in See also:Paris in the atelier See also:Gleyre; and " Taffy " in his friend Du Maurier's novel Trilby, is said to have been sketched from him . He was an intimate friend of See also:Millais and of Burne-See also:Jones, with whom he travelled in See also:Italy . He had a See also:share with See also:Rossetti and others in the decoration of the See also:hall of the See also:Oxford See also:Union . He first exhibited at the Royal See also:Academy in 1862 with his " Bianca See also:Capella," his first picture, which attracted marked See also:notice, being a portrait (1866) of See also:General See also:Gordon in See also:Chinese See also:costume; the best of his later exhibits were " A See also:Versailles," " The See also:Emperor See also:Theophilus chooses his Wife," " The Broken Idol " and " The See also:Goose Girl." He was elected A.R.A. in 1879 and R.A. in 1894 . In 1877 he went to India and painted a huge picture of the See also:Delhi See also:durbar, exhibited in I88o, and afterwards hung at See also:Buckingham See also:Palace . He married in 1884 See also:Florence, daughter of the well-known See also:col-See also:lector, See also:Frederick Leyland . Prinsep wrote two plays, See also:Cousin See also:Dick and See also:Monsieur le Duc, produced at the See also:Court and the St See also:James's theatres respectively; two novels; and Imperial India: an Artist's See also:Journal (1879) .

He was an enthusiastic volunteer, and one of the founders of the Artists' See also:

Corps . He died on the 11th of See also:November 1904 .

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