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National Gallery
Trafalgar Sq, London, England

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Marking the 150th anniversary of his death, this is an opportunity to see some of Millet’s best-loved paintings and drawings. 

Born into a farming family in Normandy, Millet moved to the village of Barbizon in 1849 where he put the people who spent their life working on the land, often the poorest of the poor in 19th-century France, at the heart of his work. He knew these people and his realistic, unsentimental approach to painting them was completely new.