picturern.
/ˈpɪktʃ(ə)rə/, U.S. /ˈpɪk(t)ʃərər/ A person who creates pictures (in various senses); a painter, a photographer, etc.figurative in quot. 1581.
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paintera1325
painter-stainer1502
depaintera1522
picturer1581
pencil-man1589
brother of the brush1687
brushman1785
knight of the brush1885
1581 R. Mulcaster Positions iv. 16 The pretence of these so fine picturers..is, to let vs behold thereby, both wherin the best consisteth..and also by what ready meane, we may best approche neare it.
1608–9 in Eng. Hist. Rev. (1897) 12 446 Benedickt Horsley, a pictorer and painter.
1650 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica (ed. 2) v. iv. 200 Not meerly a pictoriall contrivance or invention of the Picturer, but an ancient tradition and conceived reality.
1690 A. Wood Life 30 Jan. III. 323 ‘An illustrator’, or ‘picturer of great letters in books’.
1860 J. McCosh Intuitions of Mind 66 Of all men, the ardent sense-observer, or the lively picturer of external images, is the most inclined to shrink from reflex inspection.
1897 Atlantic Monthly Mar. 424/2 Mrs. Moulton has not been so fortunate..in her illustrator,—or shall we say picturer?—in whose drawings affectation is carried to the verge of grotesqueness.
1974 Philos. Sci. 41 98 If all that is important about mental images is that the picturer can make discriminations, why call them images?
1999 Sunday Times (Nexis) 28 Nov. Japan's most famous photographer, determined blurrer of the divide between pornography and art, habitual picturer of young girls.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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