For more information about Broadway and the artists’ colony, consult the sources below. This website has largely benefitted from Marc Simpson’s extensive research and writing on Broadway and its artists. Quoted family letters and many chronological details mentioned throughout the website are from this wonderful resource.
Sources for information on Broadway and images:
“The Abbot’s Grange, and Russel House, Broadway Worcestershire, The Residence of Mr. F. D. Millet.” Country Life 732 (1911): 54-61.
Broadway Parish Council. Broadway, Worcestershire: Official Guide. Carshalton: Forward Publicity, 1970.
Brooks, Alan and Nikolaus Pevsner. Worcestershire. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007.
Burrow, J. Burrow’s Guide to Broadway: Handbook to the Outstanding Feature ‘The Prettiest Village in England’.” London: J. Burrow & Co., 1932.
Crawford, A. “New Life for an Artists’ Village: Broadway, Worcestershire.” Country Life 167.4307 (1980): 252-54.
_____. “The Turning Point, Broadway, Worcestershire – II.” Country Life 167 (1980): 308-310.
Davis, S.E. The Visitor’s Guide to Broadway (Worcestershire): An Old World Village of the Costwolds with Descriptive Information of the Surrounding District Hill and Vale. Evesham: W. & H. Smith, 1906.
Houghton, Cuthbert Colin. Broadway Pictorial: Old Photographs and Illustrations of Broadway Collected by Dr. Colin Houghton, Doctor in Broadway 1938-1982. Pitchcombe: Darien-Jones Publishing, 2004.
_____. Broadway: A Thousand Years of History, 972-1972. Broadway: C.C. Houghton, 1972.
_____. A Walk About Broadway. Shepperton: I. Allan, 1980.
Parsons, Derek. Broadway: A Village History. Worcestershire: The Cornmill Press, 1996.
Sources for information on the artists’ colony:
Adelson, Warren. “John Singer Sargent and ‘The New Painting’.” In Sargent at Broadway: The Impressionist Years, 25-62. New York: Universe Books, 1986.
Brewster, Hugh. Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose: The Story of a Painting. Tonawanda: Kids Can Press, 2007.
Olson, Stanley. “Sargent at Broadway.” In Sargent at Broadway: The Impressionist Years, 11-24. New York: Universe Books, 1986.
Simpson, Marc. Reconstructing the Golden Age: American Artists in Broadway, Worcestershire, 1885 to 1889. PhD dissertation, Yale University, 1993.
_____. “Windows to the Past: Edwin Austin Abbey and Francis Davis Millet in England.” American Art Journal 22, no. 3 (1990): 64-89.
A Complete List of Sources:
“The Abbot’s Grange, and Russel House, Broadway Worcestershire, The Residence of Mr. F. D. Millet.” Country Life 732 (1911): 54-61.
Ackerman, John H. “Francis Millet Painting Commands Record Price.” The Arts, 19 April 1981.
Adelson, Warren. “John Singer Sargent and ‘The New Painting’.” In Sargent at Broadway: The Impressionist Years, 25-62. New York: Universe Books, 1986.
Barter, Judith A. “Frank Millet and Nineteenth Century History Paintings.” Nineteenth-Century American Art, Mead Art Museum Monographs 5 (1985): 5-9.
Baxter, Sylvester. “Francis Davis Millet: An Appreciation of the Man.” Art and Progress 3, no. 9 (1912): 635-642.
Beckwith, Carroll. “Francis Davis Millet: A Memoir.” Art and Progress 3, no. 9 (1912): 652-653.
Blashfield, Edwin Howland. “Frank D. Millet as Mural Painter.” Art and Progress 3, no. 9 (1912): 648-652.
Brewster, Hugh. Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose: The Story of a Painting. Tonawanda: Kids Can Press, 2007.
Broadway Parish Council. Broadway, Worcestershire: Official Guide. Carshalton: Forward Publicity, 1970.
Brooks, Alan and Nikolaus Pevsner. Worcestershire. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007.
Brown, Glenn. Francis Davis Millet Memorial Meeting: The American Federation of Arts, Held in the National Museum, Washington, D.C., 1912. Washington: Gibson Bros, 1912.
Brownell, William C. “The Young Painters of America.” Scribner’s Monthly 20, no. 1; 3, (1880): 1-15; 321-335.
Burrow, J. Burrow’s Guide to Broadway: Handbook to the Outstanding Feature ‘The Prettiest Village in England’.” London: J. Burrow & Co., 1932.
Caffin, Charles H. The Story of American Painting: the Evolution of Painting in America from Colonial Times to the Present. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1907.
Coffin, William A. “Francis Davis Millet, April 12, 1912.” In Brushes with History: Writing on Art from The Nation, 1865-2001, edited by Peter G. Meyer, 104-106. New York: Thunder Mouth Press, 2001.
_____. “Francis Davis Millet’s Easel Pictures.” Art and Progress 3, no.9 (1912): 643-648.
Crawford, A. “New Life for an Artists’ Village: Broadway, Worcestershire.” Country Life 167.4307 (1980): 252-54.
_____. “The Turning Point, Broadway, Worcestershire – II.” Country Life 167 (1980): 308-310.
D’Angelo, Gina M. Francis Davis Millet—The Early Years of “A Cosmopolitan Yankee,” 1846-1884. Unpublished PhD dissertation, The City University of New York, 2004.
Davis, S.E. The Visitor’s Guide to Broadway (Worcestershire): An Old World Village of the Costwolds with Descriptive Information of the Surrounding District Hill and Vale. Evesham: W. & H. Smith, 1906.
Gilman, Richard. “Americans Abroad.” American Heritage 12 (1961): 8-27, 89-93.
Goldsmith, Oliver. “She Stoops to Conquer, or, the Mistakes of a Night of Comedy.” Harper’s Magazine 70, no.415 (December 1884): 37-48.
Houghton, Cuthbert Colin. Broadway Pictorial: Old Photographs and Illustrations of Broadway Collected by Dr. Colin Houghton, Doctor in Broadway 1938-1982. Pitchcombe: Darien-Jones Publishing, 2004.
_____. Broadway: A Thousand Years of History, 972-1972. Broadway: C.C. Houghton, 1972.
_____. A Walk About Broadway. Shepperton: I. Allan, 1980.
Hunt, James. “Millet at Work: A Chronicle of Friendship. Part I: The Word’s Fair in Chicago.” Art and Progress 4, no. 11 (1913): 1087-1093.
_____. “Millet at Work: A Chronicle of Friendship. Part II: After the World’s Fair.” Art and Progress 5, no. 1 (1913): 12-18.
_____. “Our Artists in Europe.” Harper’s Magazine 79, no.469: 50-66.
Huntington, David Carew. The Quest for Unity: American Art Between World’s Fairs, 1876-1893. Detroit: Detroit Institute of Art, 1983.
Isham, Samuel. The History of American Painting. New York: Macmillan, 1927.
James, Henry. Picture and Text. New York: Harper, 1893.
Kilmurray, Elaine and Richard Ormond, eds. John Singer Sargent. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998.
Lathrop, Henrietta S. “The Real Broadway.” The Outlook 53, no.22 (1896): 996-997.
Mako, Marion. “Painting with Nature in Broadway, Worcestershire.” Garden History 34, no.1 (2006): 47-63.
Maynard, George W. “Francis Davis Millet: A Reminiscence.” Art and Progress 3, no.9 (1912): 653-654.
Mechlin, Leila. “A Decorator of Public Buildings: The Work of Francis D. Millet, an Artist who Finds his Chief Inspiration in the Life of his own land.” The World’s Work: A History of Our Time XIX (1909-1910): 12378-86.
Millet, Francis Davis. “The Art Competitions.” Harper’s Monthly Magazine 69, no. 414 (1884): 917-923.
_____. “The Watts Exhibition.” Harper’s Monthly Magazine 71 (1885): 96-102.
_____. “What Are Americans Doing in Art?” Century Magazine 43, no.1 (1891): 46-49.
Millet, Francis Davis (the younger). “Frank Millet — A Sketch,” c. 1940. Reel 5906, Frames 788-853. Francis Davis Millet and Millet Family Papers, Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington, D.C.
Millet, John A.P. “Frank D. Millet: A New England Artist in His Rural Studio, His Career as a Journalist and Painter, His Accomplishments and Surroundings,” n.d. Reel 5906, Frames 854-860. Francis Davis Millet and Millet Family Papers, Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington, D.C.
“Millet, Francis Davis.” In The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography Vol. XV, 201-202. New York: James White Co., 1916.
Olson, Stanley. “Sargent at Broadway.” In Sargent at Broadway: The Impressionist Years, 11-24. New York: Universe Books, 1986.
Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray. Sargent: Portraits of Artists and Friends. New York: Skira Rizzoli, 2015.
Paris, William Francklyn. “Francis Davis Millet.” In The Hall of American Artists, New York University, 96-102. New York: Architectural Forum, 1943.
Parsons, Derek. Broadway: A Village History. Worcestershire: The Cornmill Press, 1996.
Praed, Winthrop M. “The Vicar.” Harper’s Magazine 76, no.451 (December 1887): 20-30.
Robinson, John. “The Church and Abbot’s Grange, Broadway.” Journal of the British Archaeological Association 32 (1876): 435-439.
Scott-Moncrieff, W. D. “The Lay of the Lobster.” Harper’s Magazine 73, no. 438 (November 1886): 971-2.
Sharpey-Schafer, Joyce A. Soldier of Fortune: F.D. Millet 1846-1912. Utica: J.A. Sharpey- Schafer, 1984.
Sheldon, George William. Recent Ideals of American Art. New York: Garland Publishing, 1977.
Simpson, Marc. Reconstructing the Golden Age: American Artists in Broadway, Worcestershire, 1885 to 1889. Unpublished PhD dissertation, Yale University, 1993.
_____. “Windows to the Past: Edwin Austin Abbey and Francis Davis Millet in England.” American Art Journal 22, no. 3 (1990): 64-89.
Skinner, Charles. “The Domestic Pictures of Frank D. Millet.” The International Studio 32, no.128 (1907): CXI-CXX.
Stott, Annette. “Dutch Utopia: Paintings by Antimodern Artists of the Nineteenth Century.” Smithsonian Studies in American Art 3, no. 2 (1989): 46-61.
Treadway, Beth. “The Artists’ Colony at Broadway, England.” Studies in Literature 13 (1981): 41-61.
Tuberville, T.C. Worcestershire in the Nineteenth Century: A Complete Digest of Facts Occurring in the County since the Commencement of the Year 1800. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1852.
Weinberg, H. Barbara. “The Career of Francis Davis Millet.” Archives of American Art Journal 17, no. 1 (1977): 2-18.
_____. “Late-Nineteenth-Century American Painting: Cosmopolitan Concerns and Critical Controversies.” Archives of American Art Journal 23, no.4 (1983): 19-26.
An Artists' Colony in Broadway, Worcestershire: 1885-1889 