Millet
FRANCIS DAVIS, an Amer- DAVIS, an Amer. poisett, Mass., Nov. 3, 1846; was graduated at Harvard College in 1869. His art work was largely in connection with expositions. He was very successful as correspondent of the London "Daily News" in the Turco-Russian War; was special correspondent of the London "Times" and "Harper's Weekly" at Manila (1898); and a frequent contributor to periodicals. He published in book form "A Capillary Crime, and Other Stories"; and "The Danube from the Black Forest to the Black Sea." Died 1912 in the "Titanic" disaster. - MILLET a French painter; born in Gruchy, near MILLET (mi-lā'), JEAN FRANÇOIS, Cherbourg, France, Oct. 4, 1814. He worked with his his peasant father in the fields; studied drawing at the academy of Cherbourg; from thence passed with an allowance from this town to the atelier of Delaroche in Paris, and exhibited at the Salon in 1840. In 1849 he left Paris and settled among the peasants of Barbizon, on the edge of Fontainebleau Forest, and devoted himself to transferring their simple everyday life to his canvases, which he did with great truth of sentiment and subdued poetic charm. Of his paintings may be mentioned "The Sheep-Shearers," herdess with her Flock," and "The Angeleaners," "The Sowe lus."
Paris, in 1889, for about $115,000. He died in Barbizon, France, Jan. 20, 1875.
The last was sold by auction Sower ," "The Shep- Among his paintings in the United "The "The Sower" (Vanderbilt auction in States are a gramme; 0.154 English grains. MILLIGRAM, the thousandth part of Gréville" (Boston Art Museum), "Potato Diggers" and "Breaking Flax" (Walters Coll.), "Man with the Hoe" (San Francisco Museum). name for a thousand millions.