High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Valentine Cameron Prinsep, often known as Val Princep, (14 February 1838 in Calcutta, India - 4 November 1904 in London) was a British painter of the Pre-Raphaelite school.His parents were Henry Thoby Prinsep, who was for sixteen years a member of the Council of India, and Sarah Monckton Pattle; sister of pioneering photographer Julia Margaret Cameron (née Pattle) and Maria Jackson (née Pattle), grandmother of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell. Henry and Sarah had settled at Little Holland House and made it a centre of artistic society.