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Genre painter   /ʒˈɑnrə pˈeɪntər/   Listen
Genre painter

noun
1.
A painter of scenes from everyday life.





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"Genre painter" Quotes from Famous Books



... Paul Aloys, born 1808, was a genre painter of great taste and renown. His works in which the painting of silk and satin appeared were in great demand. He was professor of the Malines Academy, and in 1848 Leopold I conferred upon him the decoration of the Order of Leopold. ...
— Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders • George Wharton Edwards
... In thus seeing that fair and auburn hair is not at all uncommon among the Jews of the East, we for the first time understood why the old masters gave to Christ the complexion generally found in their paintings. Certainly, the Jewish children of Constantine would make most lovely studies for the genre painter, and we all regretted that we could not carry away with us some enduring souvenir of that which had charmed us ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 • Various


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