Francis Davis Millet
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English: Francis Davis Millet (often Frank Millet) (November 3, 1846 - April 15, 1912) was an American painter and writer who died in the sinking of the RMS Titanic on April 15, 1912. He was close friends with Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Mark Twain and John Singer Sargent, who often used Millet's daughter Kate as a model, as well as the esteemed Huxley family. In 1913 a fountain was erected in President's Park, Washington, D.C. in memory of Millet and his friend Archibald W. Butt.
Francis Davis Millet (–1912) | |||
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Alternative names |
Frank D. Millet; F. D. Millet; Francis D. Millet | ||
Description | American military physician, painter, writer, journalist, designer and sculptor | ||
Date of birth/death | 3 November 1848 / 3 November 1846 | 15 April 1912 | |
Location of birth/death | Mattapoisett | North Atlantic Ocean | |
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Portrait
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Frank Millet, portrait by George du Maurier, 1889
Works
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Turkish Water Seller, 1874
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Portrait of Mark Twain, 1877
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Reading the Story of Oenone, c 1882
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A Cosey Corner, 1884
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Cossacks raiding a Turkish village, 1887
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Fifty lashes, 1887
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Between Two Fires, 1892
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An Autumn Idyll, 1892
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The Expansionist, 1899