Richard Miller's idle and comfortable women are so beautiful

Richard Emil Miller Richard Emile Miller, USA, (1875-1943) — ArtYouhua—

Richard Emil Miller (March 22, 1875 – January 23, 1943) was an American Impressionist painter and a member of the Colony of The American Impressionist painter Giverny. Miller was primarily a figurative painter known for painting women who posed lazily in indoor or outdoor environments.

Miller grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. His father, Richard Levi Miller, was a respected civil engineer in Pennsylvania who specialized in bridges, and his mother was a Missouri native of Esmerelda Story. Miller began painting from an early age, initially as an assistant to the portrait painter George Eichbaum. He studied art at Washington University's St. Louis School of Fine Arts, where he began taking evening classes in 1891 and then became a full-time student in 1892. It was the first art school in the United States to be affiliated with a university, and it relied on the methods of the French Academy of Fine Arts to teach.

In 1898, he received a scholarship from the school to study in France and entered the early quite successful Paris Salon. In 1905, he went to Giverny to live with his friend Frederick Carr, who was also a colleague artist, and happened to be Monet's neighbor. It was here that Monet and his influence heavily influenced Miller's later style of painting. Miller married his student Wheeler in 1907 and his first child was born in 1909. Miller stayed in France for fifteen years until he returned to the United States in 1914.

After returning to the United States, he settled briefly in Pasadena, California. In 1915 he taught at the California College of the Arts. He settled in the Provincetown Arts Colony in Massachusetts in 1918 until his death in 1943 at the age of 68. Miller was a member of the National School of Design in New York and an award-winning painter of his time, receiving honors in both France and Italy and receiving the French Legion of Honor. He has been the subject of a retrospective over the past few decades, and his work has been widely copied in the exhibition catalog and appeared in a number of books on American Impressionism.