a1801 J. Hurdis (1808) III. iv. 176 Now let the painter poet walk abroad.
1897 Aug. 638 [They] are pictured as only a painter-poet could picture them.
1972 W. Blake iv. 75 The chaste flame and volute forms of another painter-poet, William Blake, are utilized to express the voluptuous eroticism of half-length female enchantresses.