easeln.
/ˈiːzəl//ˈiːz(ə)l/ a. A wooden frame to support a picture while the painter is at work upon it; a similar frame used to support a blackboard, etc. (In quot. 1791 a blunder for palette.)
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > equipment for painting or drawing > [noun] > easel
scaffold1601
easel1634
1634 J. Bate Myst. Nature & Art 119 Provide a frame or Easel called by Artists.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 193/1 St. Luke, the Patron of Painters..is drawn at his Easle working.
1734 J. Eames in Philos. Trans. 1733–4 (Royal Soc.) 38 196 The Trunk of a Skeleton fix'd to a Painter's Ezel.
1791 E. Darwin Bot. Garden: Pt. I i. 7 Many of the unexpected changes in mixing colours on a painter's easle..may depend on these principles.
1859 T. J. Gullick & J. Timbs Painting 199 The Easel is a frame which supports the painting during its progress.
b. as the typical instrument of a painter.
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1837 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe I. iii. 307 Some productions of his easel vie with those of Raphael.
Compounds
easel-picture n. a picture painted at the easel, or small enough to stand upon it.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > [noun] > a painting > of specific size or shape
quadrant1651
easel-piece1706
easel-picture1841
micrograph1874
tondo1877
kakemono1890
scroll picture1899
scroll painting1911
machine1926
pata1948
1841 W. Spalding Italy & Ital. Islands II. 396 His easel-pictures are perfect models of colouring.
easel-piece n. = easel-picture n.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > [noun] > a painting > of specific size or shape
quadrant1651
easel-piece1706
easel-picture1841
micrograph1874
tondo1877
kakemono1890
scroll picture1899
scroll painting1911
machine1926
pata1948
1706 J. Savage tr. R. de Piles Art of Painting 348 He continu'd working on his Easel-Pieces.
Derivatives
ˈeaseldom n. painting as a profession; the whole body of painters.Apparently an isolated use.
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1860 G. A. Sala Hogarth iv, in Cornhill Mag. May 578 This grandee of easeldom.
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