Richard Miller A successful plein-air and impressionist painter as well as illustrator, Richard Miller was part of the American art colony in Paris during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, staying from 1898 to 1914 when World War I began. He then became a prominent painter in Provincetown, Massachusetts. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri and began the study of art at age 10. From 1893 to 1897, he attended the St. Louis School of Fine Arts and then got a job as illustration artist for the "St. Louis Post Dispatch". He earned a scholarship to go to Paris in 1898 and studied at the Academie Julian with Benjamin Constant and Jean Paul Laurens. In 1901, he became a teacher at the rival school, the Acadamie Colarossi. In Paris his good friends were artists who, like Miller, became well-known in American art circles--Guy Rose, Frederick Frieseke, and Lawton Parker. They painted together at Giverny and socialized with Claude Monet at his home. Returning to the United States, he established his studio at Provincetown, Massachusetts where he was known as the "dean" of that art colony. He died in 1943 in St. Augustine, Florida.

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