Valentine Cameron Prinsep was born in Calcutta, the son of an Indian civil servant. Prinsep was a close friend of symbolist painter George Frederick Watts who would live with the Prinsep family until 1872 in Holland Park. It was Watts who convinced Val to pursue painting and in 1857, Val left for France to study at the atelier of Gleyer where James McNeill Whistler and Edward Poynter were also students.
Prinsep had a wide circle of friends within the art world, he was one of the painters to assist in the painting of the Oxford Union's 'jovial campaign' including Arthur Hughes, John Roddam Spencer Stanhope and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Years later Val wrote of the fond memories he had working on the murals. Another fellow artist and friend was Edward Burne Jones and in In 1860 the two traveled together to Italy.
Prinsep had a wide circle of friends within the art world, he was one of the painters to assist in the painting of the Oxford Union's 'jovial campaign' including Arthur Hughes, John Roddam Spencer Stanhope and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Years later Val wrote of the fond memories he had working on the murals. Another fellow artist and friend was Edward Burne Jones and in In 1860 the two traveled together to Italy.
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Biography
In 1876 Prinsep visited India where he had been asked to paint the ceremony which marked Queen Victoria's ascension to Empress of India. After a year spent on portrait studies, the resulting canvas was At the Golden Gate, an enormous canvas measuring 13 by 27 feet.Val Prinsep returned to England where he married Florence Leyland and continued to paint, exhibiting hundreds of works at the Royal Academy until 1888. His subjects consisted mainly of historical scene, portraits and an occasional biblical theme. In 1879 he was elected ARA and in 1894 RA. He was made Professor of Painting in 1900-03. A writer, Prinsep also published two novels and two plays during his lifetime.
Museums: Valentine Cameron Prinsep may be found at the National Portrait Gallery, London.
At the Golden Gate - Valentine Cameron Prinsep
Val Prinsep Selected Paintings & Art
- A Beauty and a Beast- Among the brambles
- Among the brambles 1890
- Among the Brambles 1890
- At the First Touch of Winter, Summer Fades Away 1897
- At the Golden Gate 1882
- Benares
- Boy, quarter-length, in a Brown Waistcoat and White Lace Collar
- Cinderella 1899
- Emily Mary Prinsep, Lady Tennyson, near Freshwater Bay
- Home from Gleaning
- Il barbagianni
- Indian Water Carrier
- La Festa di Lido
- Lady Tennison on Afton Downs, Freshwater Bay, Isle of Wight
- Lady Tennyson on Afton Downs
- Mariana 1888
- Mariana 1886 53.3x43.7
- Mu Lady Betty
- My Lady Betty
- Newmarket heath, the morning of the sale 1874
- On the Lido, Venice
- Portrait of a Boy 1892
- Portrait of a boy, bust length 1892
- Portrait of a Lady in an Oriental Interior 1864
- Portrait of Lady 1864
- Portrait of May Princep 1868
- Portrait of Sir Frances Grant 1870
- Reclining Woman with a Parrot
- Returning from Church 1884
- St John the Evangelist teaching the New Commandment
- Study of a Girl reading
- Study of a girl reading
- Sweet Repose
- The Death of Cleopatra
- The First Awakening of Eve
- The Gossips 96.5x79.4
- The lady of the Tootni-Nameh the legend of the parrot c.1865
- The Queen was in the Parlour, eating Bread and Honey 1860
- The Taj Mahal
- The Taj Mahal, India
- Three-quarter Length Portrait of a Young Girl standing 1877
- Venetian Gaming-House in the Sixteenth Century
- Willie Purchas
- Young Girl with Blue Smock and Tam O'Shanter
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Head Of An Italian Girl - Valentine Cameron Prinsep
A Venetian Gaming-House in the Sixteenth Century - Valentine Cameron Prinsep
Portrait of Frances Lady Layland-Barratt
Leonora di Mantua
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Valentine Cameron Prinsep (British, 1838-1904) artist, painter best known for his art in a pre-Raphaelite style. (more)
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