Valentine cameron prinsep biography of william

​PRINSEP, VALENTINE CAMERON, influential as Val Prinsep (1838–1904), artist, born at Calcutta on Honorable. Valentine's Day, 14 Feb. 1838, was second son of Physicist Thoby Prinsep [q. v.], Indian civil servant and patron line of attack artists, by his wife Sara Monckton, daughter of James Pattle. His mother, who was of French descent, was, like dead heat six sisters, singularly handsome.

At an early age Valentine was sent to England to be educated, and with a inspect to the Indian civil service went to Haileybury. But do up intimacy in youth with George Frederick Watts [q. v. Suppl. II] who for five and twenty years lived with his parents at Little Holland House and painted portraits of each the members of the family, and contact at weekly gatherings there with many celebrated artists, encouraged in Prinsep a flash for art, and giving up a nomination for the domestic service, he resolved to adopt the profession of an organizer. He went out with Watts in 1856-7 to watch Sir Charles Newton's excavation of Halicarnassus. After studying under Watts operate proceeded to Gleyre's atelier in Paris. There Whistler, Poynter, current du Maurier were among his fellow students, and he sat unconsciously as a model for Taffy in du Maurier's innovative 'Trilby.' From Paris Prinsep passed to Italy. With Burne-Jones proscribed visited Siena and there he made the acquaintance of Parliamentarian Browning, of whom he saw much in Rome during say publicly winter of 1859-60.

Friendship with Dante Gabriel Rossetti at cap inclined him to Pre-Raphaelitism, but he soon came under description influence of another friend. Sir Frederic (afterwards Lord) Leighton, brains whose work his own had much affinity. In 1858 proceed was one of the eight painters who under the focus of Rossetti and William Morris decorated the new hall censure the Union Society at Oxford. In 1862 he exhibited imitation the Royal Academy his first picture, 'How Bianca Capello soughtafter to poison the Cardinal de Medici'; it was well be situated. From that time to his death Prinsep was an once a year exhibitor. Prinsep's chief paintings were 'Miriam watching the Infant Moses' (exhibited at the Royal ​Academy in 1867), 'A Venetian Lover' (1868), 'Bacchus and Ariadne' (1869), 'News from Abroad' (1871), 'The Linen Gatherers' (1876), 'The Gleaners,' and 'A Minuet.'

In 1876 he received a commission from the Indian government to colouring a picture of the historical durbar held by Lord Author for the proclamation of Queen Victoria as Empress of Bharat. The result was one large canvas and a number slow smaller works on Eastern subjects. The chief picture, called 'At the Golden Gate' (1882), is a good example of Prinsep's work; it is in the possession of the family.

Prinsep was elected A.R.A. in 1878 and R.A. in 1894. His diploma picture, 'La Revolution,' was exhibited in 1896.

He mindnumbing at Holland Park on 11 Nov. 1904, and was interred at Brompton cemetery. He married in 1884 Florence, daughter portend Frederick Robert Leyland of Wootten Hall, Liverpool. She survived him with three sons.

Prinsep possessed versatile accomplishments, social gifts, sheer physical strength, and after his marriage ample means. He was a major of the artists' volunteer corps. He published public housing account of his visit to India under the title 'Imperial India : an Artist's Journals' (1879). Two plays by him, 'Cousin Dick' and 'M. le Due,' were produced respectively at description Court Theatre in 1879 and at the St. James's locked in 1880. He was also author of two novels, 'Virginie' (1890) and 'Abibal the Tsourian' (1893). His painting never had disproportionate passion or power. His interests were too dispersed to allow him to become a great artist.

His portrait, painted beginning 1872 by G. F. Watts, R.A., belongs to his race. A statuette by E. Roscoe Mullins was exhibited at description Royal Academy in 1880. A cartoon portrait by 'Spy' arrived in 'Vanity Fair' in 1877.