Sentence examples for fancy painter from inspiring English sources

Mr. Nuttman, who was born at the turn of the 19th century, was listed in the 1840 Newark directory as a "fancy painter" who lived with his wife, Rebecca, at 175 Broad.

He listed himself variously as a landscape painter, marine painter and occasionally as a "fancy" painter, which indicated skills at ornamental painting that may have included the decoration of furniture, mirrors and tinware.

Upon the supposition here stated, we should see unicorns and mermaids, sylphs and centaurs, the fancies of painters, and the fables of poets, realized by examples.

Indeed, Liotard was far more than a painter of fancy frocks; the sense of real human presence in his paintings is striking.

There are no skulls or bugs delivering vanitas-type morals about the ephemerality of earthly existence, and there is no fancy brushwork asserting the painter's virtuosity.

It encouraged visitors who thought of the artist as a painter of fancy chocolate-box pictures to see him in a different, more audacious light, and Smith found herself wondering if she couldn't do the same for his colleagues in the pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.

QUESTION FROM JEAN-PIERRE JACQUET: Was HCB annoyed as his sacralisation as the premier photojournalist, since he fancied himself as a painter (failed or not)?

"Since the late '70s I have fancied myself a landscape painter, and a painter of the things that hang around on the landscape," Mr. Andoe writes in "Jubilee City".

He may have fancied himself as a great landscape painter seduced from his true bent by filthy ­lucre.

His fancy gradually turned to British art — established painters at first, and then, with a flourish, the cavalry charge of the Y.B.A.s.

As a painter, Kass didn't do anything too fancy.