biography
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Millet, Francis (Davis)
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1846–1912)
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| biography:
| Painter and writer, born in Mattapoisett, Massachusetts, USA. He studied art in Antwerp, Belgium (1871–3), and travelled widely, but was based in New York City. A war correspondent for several periodicals during the Russo-Turkish War (1877) and in the Philippines (1899), he painted historical genre scenes. He was the co-author, with Poultney Bigelow, of From the Black Forest to the Black Sea (1893). He died when the ocean liner Titanic sank in 1912. |
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