| 单词 | picture-drawer | 
| 释义 | picture-drawern. 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. ΘΚΠ 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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