painter-man

We were right in the middle of this, and Aunty May was a little red-faced, and her hair was kind of wild, when we heard somebody laugh, and there was the painter-man down by the river, laughing as hard as he could laugh; and Aunty Edith trying to look severe at Aunty May and not able to, on account of her looking so comical.

W. A. G.'s Tale Margaret Turnbull

It was lonely for the beautiful girl there in the country: she welcomed the handsome young painter-man as though he were a long-lost brother, and proudly introduced him to her parents.

Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 1916

I figured you wa'n't no painter-man when you looked at the oil paintin 'over the bar.

Partners of Chance Henry Herbert Knibbs 1909

I took a painter-man in there once, to get a drink.

Partners of Chance Henry Herbert Knibbs 1909

We were embarked upon a singular adventure, not unattended by a certain danger; we were tingling with a hundred apprehensions, occupied with the vital necessity of drawing the little spy after us -- and that was a strange moment for a man (and an elderly painter-man of no mark, at that!) to hear himself called what I was called then, in a tremulous whisper close to my ear.

The Guest of Quesnay Booth Tarkington 1907

Thus a certain painter-man, winged with canvases and easel, might have been seen to depart hurriedly from a poppy-sprinkled field, an infuriated Norman stallion in close attendance, and to fly safely over a stone wall of good height, only to turn his ankle upon an unconsidered pebble, some ten paces farther on; the nose of the stallion projected over the wall, snorting joy thereat.

The Guest of Quesnay Booth Tarkington 1907

It was never a proper setting for a rusty, out-of-doors painter-man, nor has such a fellow ever found himself complacently at ease there since the day its first banquet was spread for a score or so of fine-feathered epigram jinglers, fiddling

The Guest of Quesnay Booth Tarkington 1907

So it seemed, at least, to the eyes of a moon-dazed old painter-man.

The Guest of Quesnay Booth Tarkington 1907

How little these careless gallant arquebusiers, who paid the painter-man a hundred florins apiece to be included in the picture, can have thought of the destiny of the work!

A Wanderer in Holland 1903

People of note began to find their way to the studio of the painter-man in the Circus.

Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 06 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists Elbert Hubbard 1885