Preposition: of

• portrait: Category: Artist Medium: Pastel Location: Crediton, Devon Clicks: 17 Philip Gunn Philip is a painter of portraits.

• landscape: He was also a painter of landscapes and did exceptional drawings of flowers.

• century: The John Piper Gallery John Piper was one of the greatest English painters of the 20th century.

Converse of object

• marry: Later she married the Spanish painter José Maria Sert, and it is as Misia Sert that she is chiefly remembered.

• inspire: Not surprisingly, it has inspired painters, potters and jewelers to set up studios and shops here.

• bear: For Geraint Evans, a Swansea born painter now based in London, the journey has taken eight years.

• become: He retired in 1984 to become a full time painter.

• appoint: In 1804 he was appointed historical painter to the Tsar of Russia, an appointment which was to influence the course of his life.

Adjective modifier

• figurative: Only the best figurative painters do us this favor.

• Pre-Raphaelite: An architect, he was perhaps the leading apostle of Victorian medievalism, along with William Morris and the Pre-Raphaelite painters.

• Flemish: We have always adored the Dutch and Flemish master painters who pictured still life food so beautifully and so realistically.

• Dutch: In around 1560 Pieter Bruegel, a Dutch painter, painted a picture which shows lots of children playing lots of different games.

• accomplished: He was I think one of the most accomplished British painters of the second half of the 19 th century.

• surrealist: But he is really better known as a surrealist painter, and has had numerous exhibitions.

Noun used with modifier

• impressionist: Giverny - Vernon: Impressionist gardens - The garden belonged to the French impressionist painter, Claude Monet.

• portrait: Election to membership of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters is based solely on the quality of an artist's work.

• watercolor: He was a keen fly fisherman, watercolor painter and enthusiastic at DIY: he built a sailing dinghy and a dry-stone wall!

• expressionist: Brett Dean is thinking of writing his BCMG work for voice and ensemble, setting poetry by Egon Schiele, the famous Expressionist painter.

• mural: Whilst painting is, at present, a serious hobby she also works as an illustrator and mural painter using a variety of media.

• realist: Williams has earned a reputation as one of Britain's foremost realist painters.