Francis Davis Millet
Francis Davis Millet (born November 3, 1846 in Mattapoisett , Massachusetts , † April 15, 1912 in the North Atlantic ) was an American painter and author .
Life
Millet was the son of the doctor Asa Millet (1813-1893) and his wife Hulda Allen Byram. Framk, as he was called, was a drummer boy in the Union Armed Forces during the Civil War . He then studied Modern Languages and Literature at Harvard University , where he graduated in 1869. After college, he went to the Boston Daily Advertiser newspaper and later worked for the local section of the Boston Courier . He made it to the editor of the Boston Saturday Evening Gazette . At the same time he took lessons in lithography from DC Fabronius.
In 1871 he went to Antwerp to the Royal Academy , where he studied painting under Jozef van Lerius and Nicaise de Keyser .
In 1873 he became secretary to Charles Francis Adams , head of the Massachusetts commission, and accompanied him to the world exhibition in Vienna. During the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78 he was a correspondent for the London Daily News and Graphic , as well as for the New York Herald .
On his return he was named a member of the United States on the International Art Jury of the 1878 Paris World's Fair .
In 1879 he married Elizabeth ("Lily") Greely Merrill in Paris Montmartre. Mark Twain and Augustus Saint-Gaudens were his best men . Millet and Saint-Gaudens moved in the same artistic circles and had met for the first time in Rome 1873–74, and then they painted the frescoes for Trinity Church in Boston with John LaFarge from 1876–77 .
The Millet couple had four children: Edwin Abbey Millet (named after Edwin Austin Abbey ), Katherine Field Millet, Laurence Frederick Millet, and John Alfred Parsons Millet. Edwin died shortly after giving birth in 1881.
In 1908 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters . In 1910 he co-founded the American Federation of Arts and the National Commission of Fine Arts. He later became director of the American Academy in Rome .
Millet was on the return journey from Rome to the USA on April 15, 1912 as a passenger in the sinking of the RMS Titanic .
Works (selection
- “Between two fires” in the Tate Gallery, London
- “The Granddaughter” painting by Millet in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston
- “Seacoast” painting by Millet in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston
- “Autum Idyll” in the Brooklyn Museum
- Frank Millet: To Appreciation . Millet's 1877 portrait of author Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain)
- Millet in the Digital Collection of New York Library
- Paintings by Francis Davis Millet - overview of the locations of his pictures in “Athenaeum” - many are in private collections
Publications of own works
- The Danube from the Black Forest to the Black Sea Illustrated by the author and Alfred Parsons. Publisher: Harper & brothers New York, 1893 (1893)
- The Capillary Crime and Other Stories Publisher: Harper & brothers, New York, (1892)
- The Expedition to the Philippines Publisher: Harper & brothers New York and London (1899)
- Count Leo Tolstoy: Sebastopol . Translated from the French by Frank D. Millet. With Introduction by William Dean Howells. Publisher: Harper & Brothers New York, Published 1887
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Members: Francis Davis Millet. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed April 15, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Millet, Francis Davis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American painter and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 3, 1846 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mattapoisett , Massachusetts |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 15, 1912 |
| Place of death | North Atlantic |