Sentence examples for gentleman painter from inspiring English sources

The works' relatively low prices indicate that he may have been an amateur, perhaps a gentleman painter.

Another is the atelier of a gentleman painter: slanted skylight, narrow mezzanine overlooking the vaulting studio space, easel by the window, and bohemian disarray.

His depiction of himself as a dandyish gentleman painter sold for £22.4m, a new auction record for the artist, beating the previous high of £16.3m, set in 1989.

Painting chiefly portraiture followed traditional patterns under imperial patronage, but independent gentlemen painters became the most esteemed artists of the age, especially four masters of the Wu school (in the Suzhou area): Shen Zhou, Qiu Ying, Tang Yin, and Wen Zhengming.

Their brother James: gentleman farmer, painter.

The official biography for Gill Landry describes the Louisiana native as "a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, adventuresome photographer, hitchhiking gentleman, self-taught painter, shadetree mechanic, and then some".

But Mr. Porsche is the behind-the-scenes power — a gentleman hunter and painter who has a business degree and hands-on car experience at Daimler-Benz, where he worked as a controller from 1976 to 1981.

The sale seemed to have been consumated when the gentleman asked if the painter was alive or dead.

Among those contemporaries he influenced profoundly were Van Dyck, Rembrandt and Velázquez, and he not only left his mark on their art but set the standard for what a painter should be: a gentleman as learned as he was talented.

As a true gentleman, or perhaps because he shared the painter's love of Parisian pleasures, Bertie would not allow the owner of the gallery to disturb him.

George, a gentleman art critic, wrote Flitestone's biography; the painter, who'd committed suicide, had been his secret passion.