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Valentine Cameron Prinsep
British painter
Valentine Cameron PrinsepRA (14 February – 4 November ) was a British painter of the Pre-Raphaelite school.
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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 Sara Monckton Pattle. His home was shared by the painter George Frederick Watts and the Little Holland House salon.[1][2] His mother was a sister of the photographer Julia Margaret Cameron[1] and Maria Jackson (née Pattle), grandmother of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell.
Henry and Sarah Prinsep returned to England in They settled in at Little Holland House, and made it a centre of artistic society.[2]
Studies, travel, painter
Henry Thoby Prinsep was a friend of the painter George Frederic Watts, under whom his son first studied, and travelled with Watts in 57 to Sir Charles Thomas Newton's excavation of Halicarnassus.
He then went to Charles