statuaristn.

1658 J. Mennes & J. Smith Wit Restor'd sig. K7^v As the cunning statuarist did by Alcides foot guesse at the proportion of his whole body, so doe I forbeare the application of this Simile.

1674 H. Croft Let. Popish Idolatrie 22 An excellent Painter and Statuarist, as well as Physician.

1703 Athenian Oracle I. 387/2 A Malefactor was executed at Tybourn, and eight hours after was by a Statuarist put into a Mold.

1760 U. ap Rhys Tour Spain & Portugal 110 That famous Roman Statuarist Giovanni Batista Moreli.

1847 J. Wilson Lands of Bible I. iv. 86 The Cyclopean statuarists of old.

1887 S. Smiles Life & Labour 221 The four Stones were statuarists,—father and three sons.

1904 P. G. Konody tr. A. G. Meyer Donatello 17 This is the great discovery which already makes the young Donatello of Or San Michele superior as statuarist to all his fellow-workers.

1968 P. Fraser tr. E. Kjellberg & G. Säflund Greek & Rom. Art ii. 101 The spirit of the Archaic period survived longer among vase-painters than among statuarists.