the Artists Rifles. Works Prinsep's major paintings were Miriam watching the infant Moses (exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1867), A Venetian lover (1868), Bacchus and Ariadne (1869), News from abroad (1871), The linen gatherers (1876), The gleaners, and A minuet. In 1877, Prinsep returned to India and painted a huge picture of the Delhi Durbar. It was a commission from Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, the Viceroy of India. It was exhibited in 1880 at the Royal Academy, presented to Queen Victoria and afterwards hung at Buckingham Palace. This "colossal work" attracted press comment, positive and negative. Later exhibits were À Versailles, The Emperor Theophilus chooses his Wife, The Broken Idol and The Goose Girl. Prinsep wrote two plays, Cousin Dick and Monsieur le Duc, produced at the Royal Court Theatre and the St James's Theatre theatres respectively; two novels; and Imperial India: an Artist's Journal (1879). Family Prinsep married in 1884 Florence née Leyland, daughter of Frederick Richards Leyland of Wootten Hall, Liverpool. She survived him, they had three sons. Frederick Thoby Leyland (b.1887) Anthony Leyland Val (1888–1942), married in 1911 Marie Lohr, they managed the Globe Theatre in London from 1911 to until their divorce in 1928. He then married Margaret Bannerman. Nicholas John Andrew Leyland (born 1894), married American dancer and singer Anita Elson in 1930. Gallery References Sources External links Val Prinsep, R.A., Dead, The New York Times, 13 November 1904 Artcyclopedia links to paintings Valentine Cameron Prinsep At The First Touch of Winter, Summer Fades Away is in the collection at Gallery Oldham, Greater Manchester 1838 births 1904 deaths Artists from Kolkata 19th-century British novelists 19th-century British painters British male painters 19th-century British dramatists and playwrights Artists' Rifles officers British dramatists and playwrights British male novelists Burials at Brompton Cemetery British male dramatists and playwrights Orientalist painters Pre-Raphaelite painters Royal Academicians 19th-century British male artists