Example sentences for: painter

How can you use “painter” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The island scenery is another painter’s delight — the dark green of the spruces and silver birches against grey-and-pink granite outcrops.

  • As Baudelaire put it in his essay "The Painter of Modern Life": "All the complicated material conditions to which [dandies] submit, from an impeccable toilette at every hour ...

  • In the great dome’s interior rotunda, painter George Southwell’s murals illustrate the four virtues that “made” British Columbia: Courage, as shown by George Vancouver confronting the Spanish at Nootka Sound in 1792; Spirit of Enterprise, with James Douglas establishing Fort Victoria for the Hudson’s Bay Company in 1842; Work, by those who had to build the Fort; and Justice, meted out to the unruly mob engaged in the 1858 gold rush.

  • The whole house was restored in the late 1990s, including the studio and the painter’s kunstkamer or cabinet, to re-create the early 1600s as faithfully as possible.

  • A photograph of a Slade summer outing, circa 1912, shows Spencer surrounded by such gifted contemporaries as Dora Carrington and Mark Gertler (whose erotic snafus were chronicled in the recent film Carrington ), as well as by the painter David Bomberg and the poet Isaac Rosenberg.


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