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colourist, colorist|ˈkʌlərɪst|
[f. colour n. + -ist: perh. a. OF. coloriste in same sense.]
A painter skilful in colouring; an adept in the art of colouring; a master of colour.
1686W. Aglionby Painting Illust. iii. 124 Excellent Designers, Admirable Colourists. 1695Dryden Du Fresnoy's Art Paint. N. 200 (R.) Titian..and the rest of the good colourists. 1846Ruskin Mod. Paint. I. ii. i. vii. §17 Gainsborough..The greatest colourist since Rubens, and the last, I think, of legitimate colourists. 1860Ibid. V. ix. 323 note, There have been only seven supreme colourists among the true painters.
attrib.1859Gullick & Timbs Paint. 220 The English school..is essentially a colourist school.
b. fig. Also said of descriptive writers.
1756–82J. Warton Ess. Pope II. 34 Spenser..was as warm a colourist. 1861Craik Hist. Eng. Lit. I. 442 Sackville..is almost as great an inventor as he is a colourist. |