Sentence examples for appointed painter from inspiring English sources

Later he was appointed painter to Napoleon.

In 1767 Ramsay was appointed painter to George III and executed little but royal images thenceforth.

At age 17 he was appointed painter to the shogun and given an estate in the district of Edo (now Tokyo) called Kajibashi, which became the name associated with his branch of the Kanō school.

In 1691 he was appointed painter to the cathedral of Toledo, but his success was counterbalanced by the preference shown by the court to the Italian painter Luca Giordano, who arrived in Spain in 1692 to decorate El Escorial, the Spanish royal residence.

Colbert instigated the foundation of the French academies of painting, sculpture, and architecture and brought the patronage of the arts firmly under state control, appointing painter Charles Le Brun as artistic dictator.

He was appointed court painter with a promise that no one else should portray the king.

In 1845, he was appointed animal painter to the Duchess of Kent.

Coypel became director of the Academy in 1714 and was appointed first painter to the king in the following year.

Boucher worked for most of his life in Paris; in 1765 he was appointed first painter to the king.

Bronzino, who was appointed court painter to Duke Cosimo de' Medici, and belonged to the inner circle of the artists surrounding him, was showered with commissions.

In 1635 he was appointed court painter to the cardinal infant Ferdinand, for whose triumphal entry into Ghent he designed decorations.