Virginia Richmond Reynolds

The couple moved to Paris where Virginia continued her studies under the American impressionist painter Charles Augustus Lasar and began exhibiting her work.

[1][2] Her miniature portrait of a Dutch girl at the American Art Association of Paris show of 1896 was the only work by a woman on display.

The success of her miniatures at the Salon de Champ-de-Mars exhibition in 1898 led to her being elected as an Associate of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts.

She also established her own school of miniature painting in Paris where her students included Lucy May Stanton, Eda Nemoede Casterton and Cornelia Ellis Hildebrandt.

[1] Her portrait of Bessie Moore was one of three which she exhibited at the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris and is now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.