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Example sentences for "great painter"

  • Thus, he said, he had become a great painter, and he wished his own children to enjoy the same advantages.

  • His colour and design were excellent, but his invention was very weak, and invention is as necessary to a great painter as a great poet.

  • If Leonardo was a great painter, are Turner and Monet not painters at all?

  • He is, if not a great painter, at least one of the most interesting rustic landscape painters of our epoch.

  • If any one could influence Velasquez, we might suppose it would have been Rubens, who was not only a great painter, but a man of the most captivating manners and disposition, ever ready to help younger artists.

  • But it must be confessed that the abundance of Boucher's work does not enhance its artistic value, and we have to think of him, in comparison with Watteau and his school, rather as a great decorator than a great painter.

  • It is true also that the tradition of the peasant Leibl, a great painter, but invariably cold, rests upon most of them.

  • Nevertheless he was a great painter and a great Belgian, untrammeled by foreign influences.

  • I am satisfied to believe that I am a great painter.

  • To her he was obviously the greatest man in the world, a great painter, a great thinker, a great lover, a great personality every way.

  • He was an artist in the true sense of the word--a great painter, ranking with Whistler, Sargent, Velasquez and Turner.

  • Querida did not pretend to misunderstand: "You're really a great painter, Neville.

  • So far there had been but one man supreme in the new world as a great painter of sunlight and of women.

  • Her last whispers to me were, "I shall see you, dear, a great painter yet; Jesus will let me look down and watch my boy.

  • I am very curious,' I said, 'to know in what way my father and the spirits can have inspired a great painter.

  • She knew, from the profiles I used to trace with the point of a nail on the smithy walls, that, unless the heavy world pressed too heavily upon me, I should become a great painter.

  • If you can't be a great painter, life, at least, remains to us.

  • Yes, yes, the fellow was no fool--simply a great painter.

  • A great painter is never married when he travels," said Mistigris.

  • She told me she'd always believed me a great painter, if I'd only break loose from the pretty things people wanted and paid me so much for.

  • And then she added, her level gaze very steady on Larry: "Of course Mr. Hunt is really a great painter.

  • Dowered by nature with extraordinary acuity of vision, with a romantic, passionate nature and a will of steel, Fortuny was bound to become a great painter.

  • He has not a facile brush; he is not a great painter; he lacks imagination, invention, fantasy; but his palette is his own.

  • Only this: Manet was a great painter, the greatest painter in France during the latter half of the nineteenth century.

  • His life, veiled toward the last, was not a happy one, though he was recognised as a great painter.

  • And was he such a great painter, after all?

  • He simply accepted Priam, as he stood, for a great painter.

  • No reference to the enigma why a great painter should be painting in an attic in Werter Road, Putney!

  • What we do know, however, is that he was very popular, not only with other artists but with the fair, and in addition to being a great painter was an accomplished musician.

  • Giorgione, short as was his life, lived at any rate for thirty years and was known near and far as a great painter, and it is to be presumed that the work that he produced is still somewhere.

  • Carpaccio was not exactly a great painter, but he was human and ingratiating beyond any other that Venice can show, and his pictures here and at S.

  • Monaco == the monk; he was a great painter, of the Order of the Camaldolese.

  • You shall have your life, dear, and become a great painter.

  • And you're going to be a great painter--" "Perhaps.

  • Was it possible that her husband was not born to be a great painter?


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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