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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 the countryside 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,  Lingholm on the edge of Derwentwater and Tenby in Pembrokeshire. This photograph depicts a view of Skiddaw, a mountain north of the town of Keswick in Cumbria, visited by the Potter family whilst staying at Lingholm in August 1897. \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 mountain, Skiddaw, with trees and farmland in the foreground. 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