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Definition of Painters
1. painter [n] - See also: painter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Painters
Literary usage of Painters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1899)
"(now the Royal Society of painters in Water- colours), wit h which he afterwards
identified ... Three others of the great est of English landscape-painters, ..."
2. Psychological Review by American Psychological Association (1896)
"The Florentine painters of the Italian Renaissance, with an Index to their Works.
... This little book is a companion to the author's Venetian painters and ..."
3. Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention by Religious Education Association (1905)
"With a boundless avidity for the picturesque, these painters found another rich
storehouse of subjects in the introductory chapters of the first and third ..."
4. English Literature: An Illustrated Record by Richard Garnett, Edmund Gosse (1905)
"Until 1844 Ruskin had not appreciated the painters of Northern Italy, ... He then
returned to Modern painters, vols. iii. and iv. of which were issued in ..."
5. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"And not only these, but many other eminent painters have practised etching
successfully, each in his own way. Ostade, Ruys- dael, Berghem, Paul Potter, ..."
6. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"A mere tabular statement will suffice to show how rich this epoch was in painters
whose names are familiar to students of art as household words. ..."
7. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1898)
"... THE painters WHEN Clive Newcome comes to be old, no doubt he will remember
his Roman days as among the happiest which fate ever awarded him. ..."