Valentine Cameron Prinsep
English painter, 1838–1904
He also studied in Paris at the atelier of Marc-Charles Gabriel Gleyre from 1869-1860, an experienced which was fictionally chronicled in George DeMaurier’s popular novel Trilby (1894). Returning to Britain he would finally settle at a home designed by Philip Webb in Holland Park. In 1884 Prinsep married Florence Leyland, the daughter of the great Pre-Raphaelite patron Frederick Richard Leyland (best known for his commission of James McNeill Whistler’s Peacock Room, now installed at the Smithsonian Museum’s Freer Gallery in Washington D.C.). As a painter, Prinsep never attained the highest rank, however his talent is clearly present in the work which survives today.
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