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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British painter, sculptor, 1817–1904
British photographer, 1815–1879
American painter and printmaker, 1834–1903
English painter and artists' model, 1844–1927
English painter, illustrator, and draftsman, 1829–1904
British sculptor and medalist, 1872–1911
Scottish painter and etcher, 1865–1945
British artist, educationalist and women's rights activist, 1827–1891
American painter, 1829–1904, born Holland
