 Prance attended Bideford Art School and was a subscriber to the Press Art School, a correspondence course for drawing founded by Percy Bradshaw.The 1911 Census for Bideford lists Prance at the family home at 66 High Street with an occupation of Art Pupil Teacher employed by Bideford Council.In 1915 in Lambeth he married Kate 'Kitty' Lily Macfarlane (1895-1979) from Barnstaple and with her had two children