- tis, Artistes belges à l'étranger, ii. 51; Jal,
865; Kramm, iv. 1132; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 344; Rooses (Reber), 415; Van den Branden, 1076.
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MILLET, JEAN FRANÇOIS, born at Gréville
(Manche),
Oct. 4, 1814, died
at Barbizon
(Seine-et-Marne),
Jan. 20, 1875.
Genre painter,
pupil of Mouchel
and of Langlois
in Cherbourg and
of Delaroche in
Paris. A peasant
himself in origin; his representations of
peasant life were painted with simple, earnest
feeling and a comprehension of its pathos
such as no other painter has reached. His
best work began in 1849, with contributions
to the Salon, which were continued up to
1870. Medals: 2d class, 1853, 1864; 1st
class, 1867; L. of Honour, 1868. Works:
Milkmaid, Lesson in Riding (1844); Œdipus
(1845); Jews at Babylon (1848); The
Sower (1849); Country Woman Seated, Men
binding Wheat (1850); Shepherds, Harvesters,
Clipping Sheep (1852); Grafter (1855),
Georges Petit, Paris, Hartmann sale (1881),
133,000 francs; Gleaners (1857); Angelus,
Death and the Woodcutter, Woman with a
Cow (1859); Waiting, Woman feeding her
Child, Sheep Shearers (1860); Shepherd collecting
his Sheep, Wool Carder, Man with
Hoe (1863); Shepherdess with her Flock,
Peasants bringing Home a Calf born in the
Fields (1864); End of Village of Gréville
(1865); Goose Girl, Summer (1867); Evening
Prayer, Potato Harvest, Potato Planters,
Sheep-Pasture by Moonlight (1868); Knitting
Lesson (1869); November, Woman
Churning (1870); Church at Gréville, Bathers,
and crayon sketches, Luxembourg Museum.
Works in United States: Grafter,
Water-Drawer, Shepherdess, W. Rockefeller,
New York; Wool Carder, Mrs. Paran
Stevens, ib.; After the Bath, Erwin Davis,
ib.; Milk-Jar, Blanchisseuse, Farm Yard
Scene, T. C. Runkle, ib.; Shepherdess, At
the Well, Water Carrier, Sower, Hunting in
Winter, W. H. Vanderbilt, ib.; Girl Spinning,
Fletcher Harper, ib.; Milk-Jar, H. V.
Newcombe, ib.; Feeding Poultry, Mrs. J. G.
Fell, Philadelphia; Naiad, Return of Labourers,
and others, Borie Collection, ib.; Shepherd,
H. C. Gibson, ib.; Ruth and Boaz,
Buckwheat Harvest, Coming Storm, Rabbits,
Washerwomen, Knitting Shepherdess, M.
Brimmer, Boston; Many pictures and drawings,
Q. A. Shaw, ib.; Several, Boston Museum;
Knitting Shepherdess, R. C. Taft,
Providence; Pastoral Scene with Sheep, G.
A. Drummond, Baltimore; Breaking Flax,
Potato Harvest, Wheat Field, Angelus, Shepherd
at Fold by Moonlight, W. T. Walters,
ib.; Birth of the Calf, H. Probasco, Cincinnati.
After Millet's death 56 pictures and
studies in his studio, many unfinished, sold
for 321,034 francs.—Alex. Piédagnel, Souvenirs
de Barbizon (Paris, 1876); Sensier,
Vie et Œuvre de J. F. Millet (Paris, 1881);
Art Journal (1881), 299; Athenæum (1875);
Larousse; L'Art (1875), i. 149; Burty, Maîtres,
278; Claretie, Peintres (1874), 28; Claretie,
Artistes et Amateurs, 386; Leclerq,
Caractères, 115; Meyer, Gesch., 640; Rossetti,
French Artists; Gaz. des B. Arts (1869),
ii. 8; (1875), xi. 429; (1876), xiii. 760; (1881),
xxiii. 457; xxiv. 56; (1885), xxxi. 473;
Kunst-Chronik, x. 360; Zeitschr. f. b. K.,
ii. 121.
MILLNER, KARL, born in 1825. Landscape
painter, who takes his subjects mostly
from the Bavarian and Tyrolese Alps, which
he represents with great truth to nature and
technical skill, being especially successful in
painting stone and rocks. Many of his pictures
have been bought for America. Works:
Evening on the High Kampe (2, 1860), New
Pinakothek, Munich; Gosau Lake, The Obersee
near Berchtesgaden, Schack Gallery, ib.;
Alp in Bavarian Highlands (1856), Berne
Museum.—D. Kunstbl. (1854), 440.
MILO, painter, of Soli, pupil of the sculptor
Pyromachus.—Pliny, xxv. 40 [146].
