A painter, designer and author, Marietta was the oldest of nine children, eight of whom survived childhood. Her parents Captain Charles Ernest Minnigerode and Virginia Cuthbert Powell Minnigerode raised their children in Richmond, Virginia. Marietta was proud of her southern heritage. Her father served in the Confederate army, and her grandfather Charles Minnigerode, who immigrated to the U.S. from Germany in 1839, served as the rector of Saint Paul’s Episcopal Church in Richmond, which became known as “the Cathedral of the Confederacy”. Young Marietta studied at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington D.C, especially with Eliphalet Frazer Andrews, whom she would later marry. From there she studied in New York City with William Merritt Chase, in Paris with Luigi
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