painter

painter
I
(Roget's IV) n.
1. [A house painter]
Syn. interior decorator, calciminer, dauber*, paint-slinger*; see worker .
2. [An artist]
Syn. 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.
II
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.
artist, portrait artist, watercolorist, old master.

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