Addison Thomas Millar was a painter and etcher, remembered chiefly as a student of William M. Chase and as a member of the Silvermine group of artists. Millar was born and began his artistic career in Warren, Ohio. He studied under local artist John Bell. In 1877 and the next two years, he won prizes in a landscape competition sponsored by a young people's magazine, The Youth's Companion.

     In 1879, Millar moved to Cleveland, where he studied under DeScott Evans and began painting portraits in addition to his landscapes. In 1883, he moved to New York City and studied painting and etching at the Art Students League. In 1892, Millar entered the Shinnecock School, conducted by noted landscapist William M. Chase. He exhibited his work regularly for the next three years at the National Academy of Design, the Society of American Artists, and private galleries in Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago.

     In 1894, Millar opened a studio in Paris. He studied under Benjamin Constant, Henri Martin and Boldini, and exhibited a painting at the Salon Champs de Mars. Millar spent the following summer painting scenes of Holland; in 1895 he traveled to Spain, where he renewed his studies under Chase. Returning to New York City, Millar continued to exhibit etchings and paintings at the National Academy of Design until his death in an automobile accident in 1913.

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PUBLIC COLLECTIONS: Detroit Institute of Arts; Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; New York Public Library, NYC; Rhode Island School of Design, Providence