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Francis Davis Millet (November 3, - April 15, ) was an American painter, sculptor, and writer who died in the sinking of the RMS Titanic on April 15,

Early life

Francis Davis Millet was born in Mattapoisett, Massachusetts.

At age sixteen, Millet entered the Massachusetts regiment, first as a drummer boy and then a surgical assistant (helping his father, a surgeon) in the American Civil War. He repeatedly pointed to his experience working for his father as giving him an appreciation for the vivid blood red that he repeatedly used in his early paintings.

He graduated from Harvard with a Master of Arts degree. He worked as a reporter and editor for the Boston Courier and then as a correspondent for the Advertiser at the Philadelphia Centennial also was very famous for his art.

Career

Millet had a studio in Rome in the early s, and Venice in the mids, where he lived with Charles Warren Stoddard, a well-known American travel journalist who, evidence indicates, had an active sexual i