Frédéric Millet

Self-portrait, c. 1817.

Frédéric Millet (28 July 1786[1] - 20 October 1859) was a French miniature painter and watercolourist, depicting First French Empire figures such as Anne Charles François de Montmorency, Louis-Alexandre Berthier, Maria Josepha Hermengilde Esterházy, Xavier Leprince, Alexandre du Sommerard, Napoleon's second wife Marie Louise and the Orléans, Bassano and Montebello families.[2] Despite his surname he was not related to the painter Jean-François Millet.

Life

He was born in Charlieu to the joiner Louis Millet and his wife Jeanne-Marie Girard. He studied under Aubry and Isabey and first exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1806. He married Marie-Henriette Rioux (future founder of the 'salles d'asile' in Paris) in 1810[3] - their children were Émile (1813-1882), Aimé (1819-1891) and Anne (1822-1878). He died at home on Rue d'Amsterdam in Paris.[4]

References

  1. ^ (in French) Archives départementales de la Loire Acte de baptême de Frédéric Millet du 28 juillet 1786, né le même jour, vue 94 / 131
  2. ^ (in French) Le Figaro, du 3 novembre 1859.
  3. ^ (in French) Les Artistes du Forez à l'Exposition de Paris, page 10.
  4. ^ (in French) Archives reconstituées de Paris, copie de l'acte de décès, année 1869 (vue 47/51).
  • "Benezit Dictionary of Artists entry".
  • "Bridgeman Images entry".
  • "British Museum biography".
  • "Getty Museum entry".
  • "VIAF entry".
  • (in Dutch) "RKD.nl entry".
  • (in Swedish) "Works by him in the National Museum of Sweden".
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