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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.   During the Potter family's extended summer holidays to  Scotland and the Lake District it was Beatrix's delight to  accompany her father on photographic expeditions. He  photographed in particular the countryside around  Eastwood in Dunkeld, Wray Castle near Ambleside and  Lingholm on the edge of Derwentwater.  This photograph of ferns and trees in a wood was taken in August 1892 while the Potter family spent the summer months in Perthshire. \r\n\r\nExcited by the possibilities of the new art form, Beatrix  too became an avid photographer, inheriting one of her  father’s old cameras, 'a most inconveniently heavy  article which he refuses to use, and which has been  breaking my back since I took to that profession.'  (Journal, Friday 19th April 1895).  Beatrix went on to  employ photography in the service of her own art and,  like Millais, she photographed details, particularly in the  Lake District landscapes, that she later incorporated in  her imaginative book illustrations.","physicalDescription":"Photograph of a view of a wood with ferns and rocks in the foreground and tall trees behind.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Rupert Potter","id":"A19569"},"association":{"text":"photographer","id":"x43821"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"photographic paper","id":"AAT14190"}],"techniques":[{"text":"albumen process","id":"AAT133274"},{"text":"photography","id":"AAT54225"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Albumen print on paper","categories":[{"text":"Photographs","id":"THES48910"},{"text":"Landscapes","id":"THES250800"},{"text":"Scotland","id":"THES262877"},{"text":"Tourism & Travel","id":"THES250702"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2018LG8334"],"imageResolution":"low","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"002","id":"THES317922"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"photograph","id":"AAT46300"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Perth and Kinross","id":"x36516"},"association":{"text":"photographed","id":"x30151"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"August 1892","earliest":"1892-08-01","latest":"1892-08-31"},"association":{"text":"photographed","id":"x30151"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Given by Joan Duke.","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"148","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"113","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"'R Potter / Aug 1892'","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Pencil inscription by Rupert Potter on verso."},{"content":"'Perthshire?'","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Pencil inscription by Joan Duke on verso."}],"objectHistory":"Photographed by Rupert Potter in August 1892. 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