Francis david millet biography sample

Francis Davis Millet November 3, [ 1 ] — April 15, was an American academic classical painter, sculptor, and writer who died in the sinking of the RMS Titanic on April 15, Francis Davis Millet was born in Mattapoisett, Massachusetts. He repeatedly pointed to his experience working for his father as giving him an appreciation for the vivid blood red that he frequently used in his early paintings.

Millet graduated from Harvard with a Master of Arts degree. He worked as a reporter and editor for the Boston Courier and then as a correspondent for the Advertiser at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition. He was the first student to win a silver medal in his first year; the following year he won a gold medal. He was made a trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art , and sat on the advisory committee of the National Gallery of Art.

He was decorations director for the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in , with claims he invented the first form of compressed air spraypainting to apply whitewash to the buildings, but the story may be apocryphal as contemporary journals note spraypainting had already been in use since the early s.

Artist Francis Davis Millet was born in Mattapoisett, Massachusetts.

Millet was among the founders of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston , and was influential in the early days of the American Federation of Arts. He was a founding member and vice chairman of the U. Commission of Fine Arts , serving from until his death in As well as an artist, Millet was a writer and journalist. He translated Tolstoy and also wrote essays and short stories.

The couple had four children: Kate, Edwin, Laurence, and John. Millet was acquainted with the famed American portraitist John Singer Sargent , who often used Millet's daughter Kate as a model. He was also close to the esteemed Huxley family. Millet lived with Archibald Butt , who called him "my artist friend who lives with me," in a large mansion at G Street NW.