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Display artist/maker:

Valentine Cameron Prinsep

Born: 1838, India, Calcutta   Died: 1904, UK, England, London

Pre-Raphaelite painter and printmaker, RA. Son of Henry Thoby Prinsep of the Council of India and Sarah Monckton Pattle, nephew of photographer Julia Margaret Cameron (née Pattle, 1815-1879). Valentine's parents, Henry and Sarah, had settled in Little Holland House in Kensington and made it the centre of a thriving salon. Prinsep studied first under George Frederic Watts (1817-1904) and later under Charles Gleyre (1806-1874) in his Paris studio. In Paris his fellow students included George Du Maurier (1834-1896), James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) and Edward Poynter (1836-1919). Prinsep maintained close friendships with several members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, decorating the hall of the Oxford Union and teaching at the Working Men's College alongside them. Between the exhibition of his 'Bianca Capella' in 1862 and his death in 1904, Prinsep was an annual exhibitor at the Royal Academy; he was elected A.R.A. in 1879 and R.A. in 1894. One of his most notable works was his 1877 painting of the Delhi Durbar, an enormous work later presented to Queen Victoria and hung in Buckingham Palace.

Objects in the collections associated with this artist/maker

Strolling Along PL3861 Prints1860s




 
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