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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\nThe family home in Kensington, where Beatrix Potter lived with her parents until her marriage in 1913, was 2 Bolton Gardens. The subject of this photograph is a view seen from the house: it shows the leafy suburban area in which the Potters lived. 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