FRANCIS

See also:

• DAVIS (or DAVYS), JOHN (1550 ?-16o5)
• DAVIS, ANDREW JACKSON (1826—1910)
• DAVIS, CHARLES HOWARD (1857- )
• DAVIS, CUSHMAN KELLOGG (1838-1900)
• DAVIS, HENRY WILLIAM BANKS (1833- )
• DAVIS, HENRY WINTER (1817-1865)
• DAVIS, JEFFERSON (1808–1889)
• DAVIS, THOMAS OSBORNE (1814–1845)

DAVIS

See also:

• MILLET (Fr. millet; Ital. miglietto, diminutive of miglio= Lat. mille, a thousand, in allusion to its fertility)
• MILLET (or MILE), JEAN FRANCOIS (c. 1642–1679)
• FRANCIS DAVIS MILLET (1846- )
• MILLET, JEAN FRANCOIS (1814–1875)

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