| painter | | |
| n. (person) | 1. painter | an artist who paints. |
| ~ abstract artist, abstractionist | a painter of abstract pictures. |
| ~ artist, creative person | a person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination. |
| ~ colorist | a painter able to achieve special effects with color. |
| ~ cubist | an artist who adheres to the principles of cubism. |
| ~ dauber | an unskilled painter. |
| ~ distortionist | a painter who introduces distortions. |
| ~ fauve, fauvist | a member of a group of French painters who followed fauvism. |
| ~ genre painter | a painter of scenes from everyday life. |
| ~ impressionist | a painter who follows the theories of Impressionism. |
| ~ landscapist | someone who paints landscapes. |
| ~ miniaturist | someone who paints tiny pictures in great detail. |
| ~ muralist | a painter of murals. |
| ~ oil painter | a painter who uses oil paints. |
| ~ old master | a great European painter prior to 19th century. |
| ~ pointillist | a painter who uses the technique of pointillism. |
| ~ limner, portrait painter, portraitist, portrayer | a painter or drawer of portraits. |
| ~ post-impressionist, postimpressionist | an artist of the Postimpressionist school who revolted against Impressionism. |
| ~ realist | a painter who represents the world realistically and not in an idealized or romantic style. |
| ~ scene painter, scenic artist | an artist specializing in scenic subjects. |
| ~ watercolorist, watercolourist | a painter who paints with watercolors. |
| ~ alberti, leon battista alberti | Italian architect and painter; pioneering theoretician of Renaissance architecture (1404-1472). |
| ~ vanessa bell, vanessa stephen, bell | English painter; sister of Virginia Woolf; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1879-1961). |
| ~ benton, thomas hart benton | United States artist whose paintings portrayed life in the Midwest and South (1889-1975). |
| ~ blake, william blake | visionary British poet and painter (1757-1827). |
| ~ braque, georges braque | French painter who led the cubist movement (1882-1963). |
| ~ cezanne, paul cezanne | French Post-impressionist painter who influenced modern art (especially cubism) by stressing the structural components latent in nature (1839-1906). |
| ~ chagall, marc chagall | French painter (born in Russia) noted for his imagery and brilliant colors (1887-1985). |
| ~ chirico, giorgio de chirico | Italian painter (born in Greece) whose deep shadows and barren landscapes strongly influenced the surrealists (1888-1978). |
| ~ john constable, constable | English landscape painter (1776-1837). |
| ~ copley, john copley, john singleton copley | American painter who did portraits of Paul Revere and John Hancock before fleeing to England to avoid the American Revolution (1738-1815). |
| ~ corot, jean baptiste camille corot | French painter of Italian landscapes (1796-1875). |
| ~ courbet, gustave courbet | French painter noted for his realistic depiction of everyday scenes (1819-1877). |
| ~ dali, salvador dali | surrealist Spanish painter (1904-1989). |
| ~ daumier, honore daumier | French painter best known for his satirical lithographs of bourgeois society (1808-1879). |
| ~ jacques louis david, david | French neoclassical painter who actively supported the French Revolution (1748-1825). |
| ~ stuart davis, davis | United States painter who developed an American version of cubism (1894-1964). |
| ~ degas, edgar degas, hilaire germain edgar degas | French impressionist painter (1834-1917). |
| ~ de kooning, willem de kooning | United States painter (born in the Netherlands) who was a leading American exponent of abstract expressionism (1904-1997). |
| ~ delacroix, eugene delacroix, ferdinand victor eugene delacroix | French romantic painter (1798-1863). |
| ~ andre derain, derain | French painter and exponent of fauvism (1880-1954). |
| ~ dufy, raoul dufy | French painter noted for brightly colored scenes (1877-1953). |
| ~ ernst, max ernst | painter (born in Germany, resident of France and the United States) who was a cofounder of dadaism; developed the technique of collage (1891-1976). |
| ~ fragonard, jean honore fragonard | French artist whose rococo paintings typified the frivolity of life in the royal court of France in the 18th century (1732-1806). |
| ~ fry, roger eliot fry, roger fry | English painter and art critic (1866-1934). |
| ~ gainsborough, thomas gainsborough | English portrait and landscape painter (1727-1788). |
| ~ gauguin, paul gauguin | French Post-impressionist painter who worked in the South Pacific (1848-1903). |
| ~ alberto giacometti, giacometti | Swiss sculptor and painter known for his bronze sculptures of elongated figures (1901-1966). |
| ~ francisco de goya, francisco goya, francisco jose de goya, francisco jose de goya y lucientes, goya, goya y lucientes | Spanish painter well known for his portraits and for his satires (1746-1828). |
| ~ duncan grant, duncan james corrow grant, grant | Scottish painter; cousin of Lytton Strachey and member of the Bloomsbury Group (1885-1978). |
| ~ gris, jaun gris | Spanish cubist painter (1887-1927). |
| ~ childe hassam, frederick childe hassam, hassam | United States painter noted for brilliant colors and bold brushwork (1859-1935). |
| ~ hokusai, katsushika hokusai | Japanese painter whose work influenced the impressionists (1760-1849). |
| ~ winslow homer, homer | United States painter best known for his seascapes (1836-1910). |
| ~ ingres, jean auguste dominique ingres | French classical painter (1780-1867). |
| ~ kandinski, kandinsky, wassily kandinski, wassily kandinsky | Russian painter who was a pioneer of abstract art (1866-1944). |
| ~ rockwell kent, kent | United States painter noted for his woodcuts (1882-1971). |
| ~ ernst ludwig kirchner, kirchner | German expressionist painter (1880-1938). |
| ~ klee, paul klee | Swiss painter influenced by Kandinsky (1879-1940). |
| ~ gustav klimt, klimt | Austrian painter influenced by art nouveau (1862-1918). |
| ~ franz joseph kline, franz kline, kline | United States abstract expressionist painter (1910-1962). |
| ~ krasner, lee krasner | United States artist remembered for her spontaneous approach to painting; she was a founder of the New York school of abstract expressionism (1908-1984). |
| ~ sir thomas lawrence, lawrence | English portrait painter remembered for the series of portraits of the leaders of the alliance against Napoleon (1769-1830). |
| ~ fernand leger, leger | French painter who was an early cubist (1881-1955). |
| ~ lichtenstein, roy lichtenstein | United States painter who was a leading exponent of pop art (1923-1997). |
| ~ l. s. lowry, laurence stephen lowry, lowry | English painter (1887-1976). |
| ~ magritte, rene magritte | Belgian surrealist painter (1898-1967). |
| ~ kazimir malevich, kazimir severinovich malevich, malevich | Russian abstract painter (1878-1935). |
| ~ edouard manet, manet | French painter whose work influenced the impressionists (1832-1883). |
| ~ andrea mantegna, mantegna | Italian painter and engraver noted for his frescoes (1431-1506). |
| ~ reginald marsh, marsh | United States painter (1898-1954). |
| ~ henri emile benoit matisse, henri matisse, matisse | French painter and sculptor; leading figure of fauvism (1869-1954). |
| ~ jean francois millet, millet | French painter of rural scenes (1814-1875). |
| ~ joan miro, miro | Spanish surrealist painter (1893-1983). |
| ~ amedeo modigliano, modigliani | Italian painter and sculptor (1884-1920). |
| ~ claude monet, monet | French impressionist painter (1840-1926). |
| ~ samuel f. b. morse, samuel finley breese morse, samuel morse, morse | United States portrait painter who patented the telegraph and developed the Morse code (1791-1872). |
| ~ anna mary robertson moses, grandma moses, moses | United States painter of colorful and primitive rural scenes (1860-1961). |
| ~ motherwell, robert motherwell | United States abstract expressionist painter (1915-1991). |
| ~ edvard munch, munch | Norwegian painter (1863-1944). |
| ~ bartolome esteban murillo, murillo | Spanish painter (1617-1682). |
| ~ georgia okeeffe, o'keeffe | United States painter (1887-1986). |
| ~ maxfield frederick parrish, maxfield parrish, parrish | United States painter (1870-1966). |
| ~ pablo picasso, picasso | prolific and influential Spanish artist who lived in France (1881-1973). |
| ~ jackson pollock, pollock | United States artist famous for painting with a drip technique; a leader of abstract expressionism in America (1912-1956). |
| ~ reynolds, sir joshua reynolds | English portrait painter and first president of the Royal Academy (1723-1792). |
| ~ mark rothko, rothko | United States abstract painter (born in Russia) whose paintings are characterized by horizontal bands of color with indistinct boundaries (1903-1970). |
| ~ henri rousseau, le douanier rousseau, rousseau | French primitive painter (1844-1910). |
| ~ john singer sargent, sargent | United States painter (born in Italy) known for his society portraits (1856-1925). |
| ~ georges pierre seurat, georges seurat, seurat | French painter who developed pointillism (1859-1891). |
| ~ ben shahn, benjamin shahn, shahn | United States artist whose work reflected social and political themes (1898-1969). |
| ~ david alfaro siqueiros, david siqueiros, siqueiros | Mexican painter of murals depicting protest and revolution (1896-1974). |
| ~ chaim soutine, soutine | French expressionist painter (born in Lithuania) (1893-1943). |
| ~ frank philip stella, frank stella, stella | United States minimalist painter (born in 1936). |
| ~ gilbert charles stuart, gilbert stuart, stuart | United States painter best known for his portraits of George Washington (1755-1828). |
| ~ sully, thomas sully | United States painter (born in England) of portraits and historical scenes (1783-1872). |
| ~ tanguy, yves tanguy | United States surrealist painter (born in France) (1900-1955). |
| ~ giovanni battista tiepolo, tiepolo | Italian painter (1696-1770). |
| ~ mark tobey, tobey | United States abstract painter influenced by oriental calligraphy (1890-1976). |
| ~ henri toulouse-lautrec, toulouse-lautrec | French painter who portrayed life in the cafes and music halls of Montmartre (1864-1901). |
| ~ john trumbull, trumbull | American painter of historical scenes (1756-1843). |
| ~ joseph mallord william turner, turner | English landscape painter whose treatment of light and color influenced the French impressionists (1775-1851). |
| ~ maurice utrillo, utrillo | French painter noted for his paintings of Parisian street scenes (1883-1955). |
| ~ gogh, van gogh, vincent van gogh | Dutch Post-impressionist painter noted for his use of color (1853-1890). |
| ~ vasarely, viktor vasarely | French painter (born in Hungary) who was a pioneer of op art (1908-1997). |
| ~ giorgio vasari, vasari | Italian painter and art historian (1511-1574). |
| ~ elisabeth vigee-lebrun, marie louise elisabeth vigee-lebrun, vigee-lebrun | French painter noted for her portraits (1755-1842). |
| ~ maurice de vlaminck, vlaminck | French painter and exponent of fauvism (1876-1958). |
| ~ edouard vuillard, jean edouard vuillard, vuillard | French painter (1868-1940). |
| ~ andy warhol, warhol | United States artist who was a leader of the Pop Art movement (1930-1987). |
| ~ max weber, weber | United States abstract painter (born in Russia) (1881-1961). |
| ~ benjamin west, west | English painter (born in America) who became the second president of the Royal Academy (1738-1820). |
| ~ james abbott mcneill whistler, whistler | United States painter (1834-1903). |
| ~ grant wood, wood | United States painter noted for works based on life in the Midwest (1892-1942). |
| ~ andrew wyeth, wyeth | United States painter (born in 1917). |
| n. (person) | 2. painter | a worker who is employed to cover objects with paint. |
| ~ finisher | a painter who applies a finishing coat. |
| ~ house painter | a painter of houses a similar buildings. |
| ~ letterer | a painter of letters. |
| ~ scene painter | a painter of theatrical scenery. |
| ~ sign painter | someone who paints signs and billboards etc.. |
| ~ skilled worker, skilled workman, trained worker | a worker who has acquired special skills. |
| ~ stippler | a painter who stipples (creates a stippled effect). |
| n. (artifact) | 3. painter | a line that is attached to the bow of a boat and used for tying up (as when docking or towing). |
| ~ boat | a small vessel for travel on water. |
| ~ line | something (as a cord or rope) that is long and thin and flexible.; "a washing line" |
| n. (animal) | 4. catamount, cougar, felis concolor, mountain lion, painter, panther, puma | large American feline resembling a lion. |
| ~ felis, genus felis | type genus of the Felidae: true cats and most wildcats. |
| ~ wildcat | any small or medium-sized cat resembling the domestic cat and living in the wild. |
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