Room Interior with Winding Staircase
Medium
Painting
Classification
Painting
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the James F. Dicke Family
Accession Number
2012.14
Tags
stairs
About this artwork
Francis Davis Milletâs Room Interior with Winding Staircase shows an empty room in an undetermined location. The blurred shadows and rounded, imperfect lines stress the openness of this uninhabited corner. Milletâs artwork was popular abroad, notably in England, where he settled in the village of Broadway. He painted many English interior scenes, highly finished works that often featured local characters and heavily researched costumes. Room Interior with Winding Staircase, however, exhibits...