A Cosey Corner

Millet, who specialized in American and English costume figure paintings, first visited Broadway, the picturesque English village, in 1884. His home and studio there, near Edwin Austin Abbey’s, would become the center of an Anglo-American artist colony. In A Cosey Corner, an early contemporary gift to The Met, the sitter’s dress is a romantic recreation of several different eighteenth-century styles as is the interior architecture. Many features of the room also correspond to a published description of the colonial New England kitchen in Millet’s East Bridgewater, Massachusetts, studio. An active member of New Movement circles in New York and Europe, Millet was featured in Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer’s Book of American Figure Painters.