Frank Millet painted this portrait of Mark Twain in 1877, eight years before the…

Frank Millet painted this portrait of Mark Twain in 1877, eight years before the publication of HUCKLEBERRY FINN. Twenty-five years later, Millet would perish on the Titanic.

This painting now hangs in the Metropolitan Art Museum in NYC.

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