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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. \r\n\r\nBeatrix 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). Like Millais, Beatrix went on to employ photography in the service of her own art, photographing details, particularly in the Lake District landscapes, that she later incorporated into her book illustrations.\r\n","physicalDescription":"Portrait of a young Beatrix Potter and Reverend William Gaskell sitting on chairs on the step in front of Dalguise House. Beatrix sits with her arm resting on the arm of a chair. She wears a pale dress, woollen jacket, striped tights and boots. 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