Auguste Millière
Auguste Millière (27 June 1820 – 26 December 1908) was a French-born painter who later became British and worked in London during the second half of the nineteenth century. He is known for several portrait paintings after earlier works and photographs, including portraits of Thomas Paine and Jacques Offenbach.
Auguste Millière
Auguste Millière / After George Romney / After William Sharp · Public domain
- Name
- Auguste Millière
- Born
- 27 June 1820
- Birthplace
- Paris, France
- Died
- 26 December 1908
- Place of death
- London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Occupation
- Painter
- Nationality
- France · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
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• Name — Auguste Millière • Born — 27 June 1820 • Birthplace — Paris, France • Died — 26 December 1908 • Place of death — London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland • Occupation — Painter
Biography
Biography
Auguste Millière was born in Paris in 1820. He was the son of Claude Millière, described as “hairdresser to the King and to Monseigneur the Dauphin”, and Marie-Victoire Thillier. On 13 July 1873 in London, Auguste Millière married Rebecca Amy Bryanashwell, a dressmaker. The couple lived in Enfield, in north London. By the 1881 United Kingdom census he was recorded as an “artist painter”, born in France and naturalised as a British subject. He died on 26 December 1908 in London at the retirement home “The Haven of Rest”.
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• Illustration — Portrait of Thomas Paine by Auguste Millière. • Oil portrait of Thomas Paine, c. 1876, after an engraving by William Sharp, itself based on a portrait by George Romney. The work is now held in storage at the National Portrait Gallery, London. • Oil portrait of Jacques Offenbach, c. 1881, after a photograph by Nadar. • Portrait of the Reverend C. E. J. Carter, painted in 1898 from a photograph for the new parish hall of St James’s Church in the Enfield district of London. • Oil portrait of a young girl, painted before 1889, after the original by Jean-Baptiste Greuze then held at the National Gallery, London.
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Contemporary newspapers mention Millière’s work. In 1898, The Middlesex Gazette reported on the unveiling of a portrait of the Reverend C. E. J. Carter painted by Millière:
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By Auguste Millière (floruit 1876), after an engraving by William Sharp (died 1824), after a 1792 portrait by George Romney (died 1802)
Thomas Paine, copy by Auguste Millière, after an engraving by William Sharp, after George Romney, circa 1876 (1792)
Auguste Millière / After George Romney / After William Sharp
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- 1.Archives de Paris, 5Mi1 216, view 24/49, reconstructed record based on a register from Notre-Dame-des-Victoires.
- 2.Bazar Parisien, sixth year, 1826, pp. 147–148.
- 3.https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/, volume 1B page 113.
- 4.https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/
- 5.https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/, volume 2C, page 235.
- 6.Thomas Paine - National Portrait Gallery. www.npg.org.uk.
- 7.https://www.artwarefineart.com/gallery/portrait-jacques-offenbach-1819-1880-composer-cellist-and-impresario
- 8.The work is sometimes mistakenly attributed to (1871–1946), who would have been only ten years old at the time.
- 9.https://britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/, The Middlesex Gazette, Saturday 22 January 1898, page 5/8.
- 10.Portrait Of A Young Girl, Oil On Canvas In A Golden Frame. After Jb Greuze. Late 19th Century. Proantic.com.
- 11.The work is sometimes mistakenly attributed to (1871–1946).
- 12.Letter from the Marquis of Dufferin stating that he had | Archive | National Gallery, London. www.nationalgallery.org.uk.
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- Sébastien Delprat, Offenbach in Full Color, translated by Donald Fox, in The Jacques Offenbach Society Newsletter, No. 114, December 2025, pp. 9–18.
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