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MILLET, FRANCIS DAVIS (1846- )

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MILLET, See also:FRANCIS See also:DAVIS (1846- ) , See also:American artist, was See also:born at Mattapoisett, See also:Massachusetts, on the 3rd of See also:November 1846. He was a drummer boy with the See also:Union forces in the See also:Civil See also:War; graduated from Harvard See also:College in 1869; and in 1871 entered the Royal See also:Academy of See also:Fine Arts, See also:Antwerp, where he studied under See also:Van Lerius and De Keyser. In 1873 he was made secretary of the Massachusetts See also:commission to the See also:Vienna Exposition. During the Russo-See also:Turkish War of 1877–78 he was correspondent of the See also:London Daily See also:News and Graphic, and of the New See also:York See also:Herald. On his return he was made a member from the See also:United States of the See also:International See also:Art See also:Jury at the See also:Paris Exposition of 1878. He was director of decorations at the Columbian Exposition, See also:Chicago, 1893, and in 1898 he went to See also:Manila as war correspondent for The Times and for Harper's Weekly. In 188o he became a member of the Society of American Artists, and in 1885 was elected to full membership in the See also:National Academy of See also:Design, New York, and was for one See also:term its See also:vice-See also:president; he became a member also of the American See also:Water Color Society and of the See also:Institute of Painters in Oil See also:Colours, London. As a decorative artist his See also:work may be seen at Trinity See also:Church, See also:Boston; the See also:Bank of See also:Pittsburg; and the Capitol at St See also:Paul, See also:Minnesota. His pictures are in many public collections: among them are " A Cosy Corner," in the See also:Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; " At the See also:Inn," in the Union See also:League See also:Club, New York; and " Between two Fires," in the See also:Tate See also:Gallery, London. He also wrote essays and See also:short stories, and an See also:English version of Tolstoi's Sebastopol (1887); and among his publications are The See also:Danube (1891), Capillary See also:Crime and other Stories (1892), and Expedition to the See also:Philip-pines (1899).

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