15 Works, Today, February 14th. is artist Valentine Cameron’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #045

Valentine Cameron “Val” Prinsep, RA (14th February 1838–4th November 1904) was a British painter of the Pre-Raphaelite school. Born in Calcutta, India, he was the second child of Henry Thoby Prinsep, a civil servant of the British Raj. The family returned to England in 1843. They settled in 1851 at Little Holland House, and made it a centre of artistic society…

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