| Valentine Cameron Prinsep - Definition Valentine Cameron Prinsep 14 February 11 November ) was a United Kingdom painter of the pre-Raphaelite school. His parents were Henry Thoby Prinsep , who was for sixteen years a member of the Council of India, and Sara Prinsep ; they had settled at Little Holland House and made it a centre of 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 Mauriers 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 Prinsep first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1862 with his Bianca Capella , his first picture, which attracted marked notice, being a portrait (1866) of General Gordon in Chinese costume; the best of his later exhibits were A Versailles The Emperor 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 Delhi durbar , exhibited in 1880, and afterwards hung at Buckingham Palace . He married in 1884 Florence, daughter of the well-known collector | |
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