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painter (pānt′ər)

noun

  1. an artist who paints pictures
  2. a person whose work is covering surfaces, as walls, with paint

Etymology: OFr peintour

painter2 definition

painter (pānt′ər)

noun

a rope attached to the bow of a boat for tying it as to a dock or for towing it

Etymology: LME paynter < OFr pentour, ult. < L pendere, to hang: see pend

painter3 definition

☆ painter (pānt′ər)

noun

Dialectal cougar

Etymology: altered < panther

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painter Synonyms

painter

n.

  1. A house painter

    interior decorator, calciminer, dauber*, paint-slinger*; see worker.

  2. An artist

    craftsman, artisan, illustrator, landscapist, portrait painter, miniaturist, draftsman, etcher, sketcher, cartoonist, artificer, animator, dauber; see also artist 1.

    Major painters include: Cimabue, Giotto, Sandro Botticelli, Andrea del Sarto, Veronese, Jan van Eyck, Albrecht Dürer, Lucas Cranach, Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Bruegel (the elder and the younger), Hans Holbein (the elder and the younger), Frans Hals, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Raphael, Titian, Tintoretto, El Greco, Correggio, Caravaggio, Canaletto, Tiepolo, Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony Van Dyck, Rembrandt van Rijn, Jan Vermeer, Nicolas Poussin, Antoine Watteau, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gainsborough, John Constable, J.M.W. Turner, J.S. Copley, William Hogarth, Diego Velázquez, Francisco Goya, Eugène Delacroix, Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, James Whistler, Winslow Homer, Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, Walter Sickert, Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Pablo Picasso, Henri (""le Douanier'') Rousseau, Amedeo Modigliani, Marc Chagall, Georges Braque, Henri Matisse, Piet Mondrian, Paul Klee, Salvador Dali, Max Ernst, Georgia O'Keefe, Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein.


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painter Usage Examples

Preposition: of

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

Converse of object

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

Adjective modifier

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

Noun used with modifier

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

Edward Hopper is the great painter of American hell in the 20th century, the limner-laureate of the beauty, poignance, eternityand bone-ache disquietude of life.

-Allen, Henry Southworth

All the others translate: the painter sketches Avisible world to love or reject.

-Auden,W(ystan) H(ugh)

La volaille est pour la cuisine ce qu'est la toile pour les peintres. Fowls are to the kitchen what his canvas is to the painter.

-Brillat-Savarin,Jean Anthelme

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