Jean-François Millet was another whose work he admired, especially his “ sentimental renditions of rural life ”.

1828 – January 9, 1901 ) was a Black Canadian painter whose tonalism and predominantly pastoral subject matter owed much to his admiration for Millet and the French Barbizon School.

Jean-François Millet ( October 4, 1814 – January 20, 1875 ) was a French painter and one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France.

Millet was the first child of Jean-Louis-Nicolas and Aimée-Henriette-Adélaïde Henry Millet, members of the peasant community in the village of Gruchy, in Gréville-Hague ( Normandy ).

After his first painting, a portrait, was accepted at the Salon of 1840, Millet returned to Cherbourg to begin a career as a portrait painter.

It was in Paris in the middle 1840s that Millet befriended Constant Troyon, Narcisse Diaz, Charles Jacque, and Théodore Rousseau, artists who, like Millet, would become associated with the Barbizon school ; Honoré Daumier, whose figure draftsmanship would influence Millet's subsequent rendering of peasant subjects ; and Alfred Sensier, a government bureaucrat who would become a lifelong supporter and eventually the artist's biographer.

In 1850 Millet entered into an arrangement with Sensier, who provided the artist with materials and money in return for drawings and paintings, while Millet simultaneously was free to continue selling work to other buyers as well.

While Millet was walking the fields around Barbizon, one theme returned to his pencil and brush for seven years — gleaning — the centuries-old right of poor women and children to remove the bits of grain left in the fields following the harvest.

The following year, Frédéric Hartmann commissioned Four Seasons for 25, 000 francs, and Millet was named Chevalier de la Légion d ' Honneur.

In 1870, Millet was elected to the Salon jury.

Millet was an important source of inspiration for Vincent van Gogh, particularly during his early period.

Salvador Dalí was fascinated by this work, and wrote an analysis of it, The Tragic Myth of The Angelus of Millet.

The Patriarch was designated millet-bashi ( ethnarch ) of the Millet of Rum ( Turkish for Rome, i. e. Byzantium ), which included all Orthodox Christians under Ottoman rule, regardless of their nationality ( ethnicity ) in the modern sense.

The film was a big-budget spectacle that was compared to both Birth of a Nation and the paintings of Jean-François Millet.

Another major Victorian benefactor was Constantine Alexander Ionides, who left 82 oil paintings to the museum in 1901, including works by Botticelli, Tintoretto, Adriaen Brouwer, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Gustave Courbet, Eugène Delacroix, Théodore Rousseau, Edgar Degas, Jean-François Millet, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Burne-Jones, plus watercolours and over a thousand drawings and prints

Francis Davis Millet ( November 3, 1846 – April 15, 1912 ) was an American painter, sculptor, and writer who died in the sinking of the on April 15, 1912.

Francis Davis Millet was born in Mattapoisett, Massachusetts.

The town was first settled in 1799 when four brothers named Andrew, John, Samuel, and Daniel Millet left their homes in Connecticut, traveled west and became the first settlers in what is now the hamlet of Walworth.

And in the visual arts, Jean-François Millet was a native of La Hague.

In the Millet system in force during the Ottoman empire, the population was classified according to religion rather than language or ethnicity.

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Writing in the Meiji era, Lafcadio Hearn ( 1902 ) described a baku with very similar attributes that was also able to devour nightmares.

Writing in 1947, Cyril Garbett comments :" The House of Commons was within its constitutional rights in rejecting in a few hours the work of many anxious years.

Writing in 1889, Alfred Russel Wallace remarks " It was formerly a very general belief, even amongst geologists, that the great features of the earth's surface, no less than the smaller ones, were subject to continual mutations, and that during the course of known geological time the continents and great oceans had again and again changed places with each other.

Writing in 2010 Neil Finn said, " When we lost Paul it was like someone pulled the rug out from underneath everything, a terrible jolt out of the dark blue.

Writing a century before Causantín was born, Bede recorded five languages in Britain.

He worked on such films as Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo ( 1944 ), Our Vines Have Tender Grapes ( 1945 ), and Kitty Foyle ( 1940 ), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay.

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The film was nominated for five Academy Awards: Best Actress in a Leading Role, Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Best Director, Best Picture, and Best Writing in a Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen.

It won three Academy Awards, including his second for Best Writing ( Adapted Screenplay ) ( with Puzo ), Best Picture and Best Actor ( for Brando ) and a nomination for Best Director and was instrumental in cementing his position as a prominent American film director.

In 1996 he was awarded the Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science.

Lucas was nominated for four Academy Awards: Best Directing and Writing for American Graffiti, and Best Directing and Writing for Star Wars.

Writing in the spring of 1945 a long essay titled " Antisemitism in Britain ," for the Contemporary Jewish Record, Orwell stated that anti-Semitism was on the increase in Britain, and that it was " irrational and will not yield to arguments.

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Along with her work as a writer of prose fiction, Russ was also a playwright, essayist, and author of nonfiction works, generally literary criticism and feminist theory, including the essay collection Magic Mommas, Trembling Sisters, Puritans & Perverts ; How to Suppress Women's Writing ; and the book-length study of modern feminism, What Are We Fighting For ?.

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Writing about some of these subjects was prohibited in Egypt.

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