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{{Infobox artist
| name = Valentine Cameron Prinsep
| image = Julia Margaret Cameron - Valentine Prinsep, 1867.jpg
| image_size =
| alt =
| caption = Valentine Cameron Prinsep (1883)<br />by Julia Margaret Cameron
| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1838|02|14|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Calcutta]], India
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1904|11|04|1838|02|14|df=yes}}
| death_place = London
| nationality =
| spouse = Florence Leyland
| field = oil painting
| movement = [[Pre-Raphaelite]]
| works =
}}

'''Valentine Cameron''' "'''Val'''" '''Prinsep''' {{Post-nominals|post-noms=[[List of Royal Academicians|RA]]}} (14 February 1838{{snd}}4 November 1904) was a [[British painter]] of the [[Pre-Raphaelite]] school.

==Early life==
Born in [[Calcutta]], India, he was the second child of [[Henry Thoby Prinsep]], a civil servant of the [[British Raj]], and his wife Sarah Monckton Pattle, daughter of James Pattle.<ref name="ODNB">{{cite ODNB|id=35615|first=Caroline|last=Dakers|title=Prinsep, Valentine Cameron}}</ref> His mother was a sister of the photographer [[Julia Margaret Cameron]] and Maria Jackson (née Pattle), grandmother of [[Virginia Woolf]] and [[Vanessa Bell]].

Henry and Sarah Prinsep returned to England in 1843. They settled in 1851 at [[Little Holland House]], and made it a centre of artistic society.<ref name="ODNB"/>
[[File:Valentine Cameron Prinsep00.jpg|thumb|upright|right|Prinsep, 1883 by Frank Dudman]]

==Studies, travel, painter==
[[File:Portrait of Valentine Prinsep by Alphonse Legros.jpg|thumb|left|140px|upright|Portrait of Prinsep by [[Alphonse Legros]], [[British Museum]]]]
Henry Thoby Prinsep was a friend of the painter [[George Frederic Watts]], under whom his son first studied,{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}} and travelled with Watts in 1856–57 to Sir [[Charles Thomas Newton]]'s excavation of [[Halicarnassus]]. He then went to [[Charles Gleyre]]'s atelier in Paris. There [[James Abbott McNeill Whistler]], [[Edward Poynter]], and [[George du Maurier]] were among his fellow students, and he was later the original for Taffy in Du Maurier's novel ''Trilby.'' After Paris, Prinsep passed to Italy. With [[Edward Burne-Jones]] he visited [[Siena]] and there made the acquaintance of [[Robert Browning]], of whom he saw much in Rome during the winter of 1859–60.{{sfn|Gibson|1912}}

Prinsep was a close friend of [[John Everett Millais]], and of Burne-Jones, with whom he travelled further in Italy. He had a share with [[Dante Gabriel Rossetti]] and others in the [[Oxford Union murals|decoration]] of the hall of the [[Oxford Union]].{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}} With other members of the [[Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood]], he taught at the [[Working Men's College]] during the mid-19th century.<ref name=Harrison>[[J. F. C. Harrison]] ,''A History of the Working Men's College (1854–1954)'', Routledge Kegan Paul, 1954</ref> He first exhibited at the [[Royal Academy of Arts]] in 1862 with his ''Bianca Capella'', his first picture, which attracted notice as a portrait (1866) of [[Charles George Gordon|General Gordon]] in Chinese costume.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}} Prinsep lent the costume to Millais who used it in his own painting ''[[Esther (Millais painting)|Esther]].''{{sfn|Gibson|1912}}

From 1862 to his death Prinsep was an annual exhibitor at the Royal Academy. He was elected [[Associate of the Royal Academy|A.R.A.]] in 1879 and [[Royal Academy|R.A]]. in 1894.{{sfn|Gibson|1912}} His marriage in 1884 made Prinsep a wealthy man, and he became a company director and landowner.<ref name="ODNB"/>

==Death and monument==
[[File:Valentine Prinsep Monument Brompton.jpg|thumb|upright|Monument in [[Brompton Cemetery]], London]]
[[File:Inscription on grave of Valentine Cameron Princep.jpg|thumb|Inscription on the grave of Valentine Cameron Princep]]
Prinsep died at Holland Park, west London in 1904, and is buried in [[Brompton Cemetery]], London.<ref>http://www.brompton.org/Residents.htm {{Bare URL inline|date=June 2021}}</ref> He was buried with his wife Florence. The distinctive Roman style monument lies on the western path between the north entrance and the central buildings. He was an enthusiastic volunteer, and one of the founders of the [[Artists Rifles]].{{sfn|Gibson|1912}}

==Works==
Prinsep's major 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.''{{sfn|Gibson|1912}}

In 1877, Prinsep returned to India and painted a huge picture of the [[Delhi Durbar]]. It was a commission from [[Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton]], the Viceroy of India. It was exhibited in 1880 at the Royal Academy, presented to Queen Victoria and afterwards hung at [[Buckingham Palace]]. This "colossal work" attracted press comment, positive and negative.<ref>'Royal Academy Exhibition (First Notice)', ''[[The Times]]'', 3 May 1880, p. 9.</ref><ref name="ODNB"/> Later exhibits were ''À Versailles'', ''The Emperor Theophilus chooses his Wife'', ''The Broken Idol'' and ''The Goose Girl''.{{sfn|Gibson|1912}}

Prinsep wrote two plays, ''Cousin Dick'' and ''Monsieur le Duc'', produced at the [[Royal Court Theatre]] and the [[St James's Theatre]] theatres respectively; two novels; and ''Imperial India: an Artist's Journal'' (1879).{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}

==Family==
Prinsep married in 1884 Florence, daughter of [[Frederick Richards Leyland]] of Wootten Hall, Liverpool.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}} She survived him with three sons.{{sfn|Gibson|1912}} Of those sons, Anthony Leyland Val Prinsep (1888–1942) married in 1911 [[Marie Lohr]], and managed the [[Gielgud Theatre|Globe Theatre]] in London with her from 1911 to 1928, when they divorced. He then married [[Margaret Bannerman]].<ref>{{cite ODNB|id=40471|title=Löhr, Marie Kaye Wouldes|first=Anne Pimlott|last=Baker}}</ref> The other sons were Thoby and Nicholas.<ref name="ODNB"/> Nicholas John Andrew Leyland Prinsep (born 1894) married in 1930 [[Anita Elson]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Lyttelton|first=Edward|title=The Old Public School Boys' Who's Who series: Eton|year=1933|publisher=St. James's Press|page=660}}</ref>

==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:My Lady Betty Valentine Cameron Prinsep.jpeg|''My Lady Betty'', c. 1864
File:Prinsep, The Queen was in the Parlour.jpg|''[[Sing a Song of Sixpence|The Queen was in the Parlour]]'' (1860; [[Manchester Art Gallery]])
File:Dame Madge Kendal by Valentine Cameron Prinsep.jpg|''Dame Madge Kendal'' (1880)

</gallery>

==References==
{{reflist}}

==Sources==
*{{DNB12|wstitle=Prinsep, Valentine Cameron |first=Frank W.|last=Gibson|volume=3}}
*{{EB1911|wstitle=Prinsep, Valentine Cameron|volume=22|page=350}}

==External links==
{{commons category|Valentine Cameron Prinsep}}
* [https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1904/11/13/120289661.pdf Val Prinsep, R.A., Dead], ''[[The New York Times]]'', 13 November 1904
* [http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/prinsep_valentine_cameron.html Artcyclopedia links to paintings]
*Valentine Cameron Prinsep ''At The First Touch Of Winter, Summer Fades Away'' is in the collection at [http://www.galleryoldham.org.uk/ Gallery Oldham, Greater Manchester]
*{{Art UK bio}}

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