oil on canvas
25 x 30 in.
Price Realized £84,000
Prinsep himself was a member of the Holland Park Circle, who decorated their London villas in the Aesthetic taste. His affability and family connections - he was the son of Indian civil servant and Sara Pattle, one of the legendary Pattle sisters - placed him at the centre of bohemian society. He famously inspired the character Taffy in George Du Maurier's fictional account of the Parisian Vie de Bohème, Trilby (1894).
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