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Prince Rupert
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(1619–82) Son of the *Winter Queen and grandson of *James I. He is also known as Rupert of the Rhine, because his title through his father was Count Palatine of the Rhine. He is remembered in two very different contexts. He was a dashing though not consistently successful cavalry commander on behalf of his uncle Charles I in the *English Civil War. And he was the first practitioner in England of a new form of print-making, the *mezzotint, which later became almost exclusively British (providing richly toned monochrome reproductions of paintings, in particular portraits). A mezzotint by Prince Rupert was included as an illustration in John *Evelyn's book on engraving. Rupert is also credited with having invented prince's metal, a form of brass (an alloy of copper and zinc) used as a cheap substitute for gold.
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