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An  enthusiastic and skilled amateur, he was  elected to the Photographic Society of London in  1869 and later contributed to photographic  exhibitions.  Rupert assisted the artist Sir John  Everett Millais (1829-1896), a close friend, by  photographing backgrounds for paintings and  sitters for portraits. His favourite subject,  however, was Beatrix herself and his prolific  legacy of several hundred photographs forms a  broad pictorial account of her life from infancy to  marriage. \r\n\r\nRupert was also a skilled landscape  photographer and during the Potter family's  extended summer holidays to Scotland and the  Lake District he photographed in particular the  countryside around Eastwood in Dunkeld, Wray  Castle near Ambleside and Lingholm on the  edge of Derwentwater.  From 1871 to 1881 the  family rented Dalguise House near Dunkeld in  Perthshire.  ","physicalDescription":"Group photograph taken on the front doorstep of Dalguise House. All are seated. 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