rhyparographn.
/rɪˈparəɡrɑːf/, /rɪˈparəɡraf/, U.S. /rɪˈpɛrəˌɡræf/ Now rare.
A painter of sordid or distasteful subjects; = rhyparographer n. Also occasionally: a painting of such a subject.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to subject > [noun] > genre painting > painter
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1662 J. Evelyn Sculptura iv. 83 The extravagant fancies of both the Breugles.., Divers Histories, Drolleries, Landskips, fantastic Grylles and Grotesqus of these two rare Rhyparographs.
1793 tr. C. de Pauw Philos. Diss. on Greeks II. vii. 55 This was not the manner of the Ryparographs, who made choice of low objects from kitchens and workshops.
1878 Contemp. Rev. 33 857 Still less exacting was the taste in rhyparographs, to which paintings the name of genre may properly be given.
1902 E. J. Dillon Maxim Gorky xii. 330 The figure is truly repulsive, and worthy of the kind of artist to whom the Greeks gave the name of rhyparographs.
1970 Washington Post 18 Mar. (Style section) b1/2 The oldest surviving still lifes..once were known as ‘rhyparographs’. The word means ‘garbage pictures’ and they were just that.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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