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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":"Portrait of a bearded gentleman sitting in a wicker chair on the doorstep of Dalguise House. 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