Valentine Cameron (Val) Prinsep
Born 14 February 1836
Died 11 November 1904
Active: 1856 - 1904
Country of birth: India
Country of death: England
Painter, writer, lender
Born in Bengal. Died in London. Valentine ('Val') Cameron Prinsep, was a portrait, historical and genre painter and writer, who was the son of Henry Thoby Prinsep, a wealthy Indian civil servant, and Sara Pattle, the daughter of James Pattle, a Bengali civil servant. Prinsep was a nephew of the photographer, Julia Margaret Cameron. From 1859 to 1860 he studied at Charles Gleyre's atelier in Paris, where his fellow students included George Du Maurier, Edward Poynter and James McNeill Whistler. He was the model for Taffy in Du Maurier's Trilby.
Works
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Lent Bronze Head
1901
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at International Exhibition, Glasgow, 1901
1901
Sources
International Exhibition Glasgow, 1901,
Official Catalogue of the Fine Art Section
1901
The Correspondence of James McNeill Whistler, 1855-1903 including The Correspondence of Anna McNeill Whistler, 1855-1880
http://www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk/correspondence/people/biog/?bid=Prin_V&firstname=&surname=prinsep (accessed 6 September 2010)
Citing this record
'Valentine Cameron (Val) Prinsep', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib7_1207139176, accessed 25 May 2018]
