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Jean-François Millet was a 19th century French artist. He was the son of farmers, but made it to Cherbourg and then Paris to study art. He started his career as a portrait painter, but eventually moved on to paint rural themed works. He deviated from the romantic rustic style that was popular and focused on the life of peasants, which he was familiar with from his youth on the farm.
He was a member of the Barbizon school of landscape painting. He differed from most the others in that group by including people and their activities in many of his paintings. His representations of the common man led some to charge him with being a socialist sympathizer, but such controversy was minor and didn't affect his popularity and influence.
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