Valentine cameron prinsep artemis

British painter

Valentine Cameron PrinsepRA (14 February 1838 – 4 November 1904) was a British painter of the Pre-Raphaelite school.

Valentine cameron prinsep the owl

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 1843. They settled in 1851 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 1856–57 to Sir Charles Thomas Newton's excavation of