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G Van Millett was born April 5, 1864, in Kansas City,
Missouri, and has lived his whole life in the town. He went to
the public schools, and after working a year in his father's printing
establishment entered Kansas University. Returning, he again
worked in his father's office, but all his ambitions were centered
upon art. He went to St. Louis, where he began to draw for
lithographers and engravers, setting type in between times, and this
courage and determination at last decided the Elder Millet to give him
his wish. The young man was sent to Europe in 1886, and
studied in the Royal Academy at Munich under masters like Carl Raupp,
Nikolas Gysis, and Ludwig Von Loeffts. He remained there five
years, and his pictures secured honorable mention in the Royal Academy
exhibitions.
After a short stay in Paris, he returned to
Kansas City in 1891, and established a studio here. He spent the
year of 1893 in Holland, and returning to Kansas City accepted a
professorship with the Kansas City Art Association. He soon
resigned, however, preferring to work for himself and in his own
way. Mr. Millet exhibits at all the great exhibitions in this
country, and in 1896 helped to organize the Kansas City Art
Club. He has served three terms as its president, and has done
much to make the annual exhibitions successful.
He married Miss Mary McKee, of Kansas City,
in 1899, and they have one child, Elizabeth.
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