Andrews was born Marietta Fauntleroy Minnigerode in
Richmond,
Virginia. Her sister
Lucy Minnigerode was head of the
United States Public Health Service Nursing Corps. She was of
German descent, being the granddaughter of
Charles Minnigerode, a revolutionary who fled to the United States in the 1830s due to his radical sentiments. She studied at the
Corcoran School of Art in
Washington, D.C. under
Eliphalet Frazer Andrews, whom she would marry in 1895. She also studied in
New York City with
William Merritt Chase, with of Paris, Beginning in 1890 she served as an assistant instructor at the Corcoran School. She visited Italy in 1892, and in 1896 became a founder member of the
Washington Water Color Club. In 1920 she formed the National Monticello Association, one of a number of organizations formed to raise the funds to purchase
Monticello, which had been put up for sale by its owner
Jefferson Monroe Levy. She produced designs for the stained glass windows of St. Paul's Church in
Steubenville,
Ohio. A
sketchbook by Andrews, along with a collection of her drawings, was long held in the collection of the
Corcoran Gallery of Art; at that institution's demise, all of these were transferred to the
art museum at
American University. A collection of her papers may be found at
Virginia Commonwealth University. ==References==