drawing mastern.
/ˈdrɔː(r)ɪŋ ˌmɑːstə/, /ˈdrɔː(r)ɪŋ ˌmastə/, U.S. /ˈdrɔɪŋ ˌmæstə/, /ˈdrɑɪŋ ˌmæstə/ A male teacher of the art of drawing.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > drawing > [noun] > teacher
drawing master1722
1722 P. R. Fremont Truth Acknowledged 13 My Resolution is to shew what he ought to make the Drawing Master observe.
1821 W. M. Craig Lect. Drawing iv. 196 The general standard of proportion which has doubtless been laid down to you by your drawing masters.
1900 Atlantic Monthly Apr. 470/2 The English drawing master did not teach art, but facile tricks of the brush.
2018 Lowestoft Jrnl. (Nexis) 30 Nov. The main subject of his entertaining talk focussed on his time as drawing master at Eton College.
Derivatives
ˈdrawing-ˌmasterish adj. characteristic or reminiscent of a drawing master.
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1859 Critic 14 May 471/1 The very perfection of drawing-masterish execution.
1945 Artist Mar. 3/3 His drawings..are rather wooden and ‘drawing-masterish’.
ˈdrawing-ˌmastership n. the position or work of a drawing master.
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1841 Hull Packet 31 Dec. 4/4 Mr. Bevan is a candidate also for the drawing-mastership in the Kingston College.
1885 Athenæum 12 Sept. 341/1 A sort of drawing mastership in excelsis.
2009 L. W. Hinojosa Renaissance, Eng. Cultural Nationalism, & Modernism, 1860–1920 iii. 54 Ruskin gave many lectures on art.., established a drawing mastership, and promoted art instruction in general.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022).
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