Richard E. Miller (1875–1943), also known as Richard Edward or Richard Emil Miller, was born on 22 March 1875 in St. Louis, Missouri. He studied at the St. Louis School of Fine Arts in the 1890s and then went to Paris, where he trained under Jean-Paul Laurens and Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant. He spent much of his early career in France.
Miller belonged to the Giverny Group, the second generation of American Impressionists who worked in France in the early twentieth century. He spent summers in Giverny, the village that grew up around Claude Monet’s home, and became a close friend of Frederick Frieseke. He is best known for figure paintings of women posing in sunlit interiors and gardens. In 1918 he settled in Provincetown, Massachusetts.
In his last years Miller spent his winters in Florida. He died suddenly in St. Augustine on 23 January 1943.