Yet there's far more to the work of this fantastically prolific painter than those greetings-card favourites.

More curious still, he was a prolific painter (never exhibited) and poet (never published).

He was a prolific painter in oils.

It did not bother him that his work was widely forged; he was a prolific painter who enjoyed meeting the many owners of his work at verification sittings.

His retirement gave him the latitude to become a prolific painter and gardener.

A realist painter of great gifts.

He was primarily a realist painter of nature.

As an artist, he was a realist painter and muralist.

As a realist painter, his works focus on inanimate objects, architectural form, masonry, foliage and landscape.

I am not an abstract painter but, on the contrary, a figurative and realist painter.

He started as a self-taught painter in 1941.

This self-taught painter made his first watercolors, depicting village life, in 1944.

A self-taught painter, his works are represented in public and private collections in twenty countries.

She was a self-taught painter, who worked for two years until she decided to enter works in a show in 1968.

A self-taught painter, he was a late adherent to the movement, not joining until 1929.

He found work as a sign painter and carved on the side.

By 1922 he had a reputation as a master sign painter and had his own successful business producing posters.

He soon married and took a job as a sign painter, leaving school early due to clashes with his art instructor.

He had been apprenticed to a sign painter when he was ten.

He turned his painting hobby into a business as a sign painter.

Although his art has been comprehensively overshadowed by his general larking about, he was an immensely talented painter in his youth.

Talented painter (but tend to deface my own work).

He was a talented painter but it was his personality that was remarkable, and where he was clever was in using other people to do his bidding without them realising.

He was a physician, an administrator, social worker, talented painter and a philanthropist.

He was also a talented painter and a notable public benefactor.