Citations:painter


 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * Your saying that he is a pretty man, brings to my mind what I have observed in the work of the painter, whose pictures show best at a distance, but, very near, more unpleasing.


 * 1813 — Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
 * "Oh! yes. Do let the portraits of your uncle and aunt Phillips be placed in the gallery at Pemberley. Put them next to your great-uncle the judge. They are in the same profession, you know, only in different lines. As for your Elizabeth's picture, you must not have it taken, for what painter could do justice to those beautiful eyes?"


 * 1841 — James Fenimore Cooper. The Deerslayer.
 * I have fou't most of the creatur's of the forest, such as bears, wolves, painters and catamounts, but this is the beginning with the red-skins.