polychromistn.
/ˌpɒlɪˈkrəʊmɪst/, U.S. /ˌpɑliˈkroʊməst/ Art History Now rare.
A person who applies coloured paint to a statue or other work of art; a colourist. Also: a person who advocates this.
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1842 R. N. Wornum in W. Smith Dict. Greek & Rom. Antiq. 681/2 at Painting Ancient tetrachromists or polychromists.
1861 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 9 424/1 Is the addition of coloring to statues..an advance in art, or a retrogression? The polychromist will..hold it to be the former.
1864 Sat. Rev. 21 May The unquestioning assumption of the polychromists that ‘circumlitio’ in this passage means ‘painting’.
1927 G. Webb in R. Tatlock et al. Spanish Art 57 (note) There are extant instructions from Hernández to his polychromist minutely detailing the complexions of his figures.
1996 I. Chilvers Conc. Oxf. Dict. Art & Artists (ed. 2) 179 Abandoning the earlier practice of using gold and brilliant colours and insisting upon realistic colouring from the polychromists who painted his sculptures.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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