detailist

Villegas, Rico, or of the work of Meissonier, who as a detailist eclipsed them all.

Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures Henry Rankin Poore 1899

These items are what interested the great detailist and they are perfect; but with all the intense effort of six close years of labor the picture has less real finish than any work ever signed by Mauve.

Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures Henry Rankin Poore 1899

The extreme realist or detailist of the Ruskin type has for years been insisting that a spade was a spade and should be painted to look like

Outdoor Sketching Four Talks Given before the Art Institute of Chicago; The Scammon Lectures, 1914 Francis Hopkinson Smith 1876