page_title: Virginia Richmond Reynolds
section_title: Early life and education
hierarchical_section_title: Virginia Richmond Reynolds / Early life and education
caption_attribution_description: English: Virginia Richmond Reynolds, Bessie Moore, 1899, Metropolitan Museum of Art
context_page_description: Virginia Richmond Reynolds was an American artist particularly known for her portrait miniatures. She was also an influential teacher of the genre.
context_section_description: Reynolds was born in Chicago, and studied first at the Art Institute of Chicago and then in Munich with Carl Marr. While in Munich she married Wellington Jarard Reynolds who was also an art student there. The couple moved to Paris where Virginia continued her studies under the American impressionist painter Charles Augustus Lasar and began exhibiting her work.
caption: Portrait of Bessie Moore, 1899, Metropolitan Museum of Art
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