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

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

Corps . He died on the 11th of November 1904 .

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