Jean François MILLET Biography and Painting
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Millet Jean François(1814-1875) |
Millet jean françois painter french Gruchy near Cherbourg 1814 - Barbizon, 1875
Jean-François Millet, son of Normandy farmers, began studying painting in Cherbourg. In 1838, with the aid of a bursary, he moved to Paris and became briefly, a pupil of P. Delaroche, but soon decided that he preferred to work alone. He made frequent visits to the Louvre Museum , where he was particularly influenced by Michelangelo, Poussin and Rubens. In order to earn a living he painted shop signs and numerous portraits.
In the 1840s, Millet spent most of his time in Cherbourg, and, after the death of his first wife in 1844, spent a year in Le Havre where he exhibited with some success.
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After about 1860 Millet, influenced by Rousseau, began to place more emphasis on landscape in his paintings, and also began to work more in watercolour and pastel. His fame grew, commissions and honours flooded in, and his success continued to the end of his life.
He died in Barbizon in 1875 and was buried in the cemetery at Chailly near the tomb of his friend and colleague Rousseau.
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