picture-drawern.
/ˈpɪktʃəˌdrɔː(r)ə/, U.S. /ˈpɪk(t)ʃərˌdrɔ(w)ər/, /ˈpɪk(t)ʃərˌdrɑ(w)ər/ Now chiefly historical.
A person who draws or paints pictures; a painter. Also figurative.In the 17th and early 18th centuries, the usual word for a portrait painter.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to subject > [noun] > portrait-painting > portrait-painter
picture-drawer1587
limner1594
portrait painter1706
portraitist1857
1587 in J. C. Jeaffreson Middlesex County Rec. (1886) I. 173 Edmund Barton..picture drawer.
1635 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Donzella Desterrada 115 The Philosophers (humanities picture-drawers) have indeede drawne many pictures.
1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso i. xix. 31 Picture-drawers did the better set off the figures which they draw, by dark shadows.
a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 19 Sir Anthony Vandike the famous picture drawer.
1775 J. Shebbeare Answer to E. Burke 121 According to this picture-drawer [i.e. Burke], Mr. Grenville..‘was nevertheless so unhappily born, that his mind could not be opened and liberalized by the law’.
1853 E. Fitzball Miller of Derwent Water i. i. 7 You, as pretended to be a picture drawer!
1892 B. Butler Autobiogr. xv. 690 A topographical engineer,—that is, a picture drawer or map maker.
1951 D. Mathew Age Charles I ix. 138 Those [recusants] resident in London included..George Geldropp a picture drawer, Thomas Turner a physician, [etc.].
1992 Record (Kitchener-Waterloo, Ont.) (Nexis) 15 Aug. a7 He was the second best picture-drawer in the whole world.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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