pastelist

American  

[pa-stel-ist, pas-tl-ist] / pæˈstɛl ɪst, ˈpæs tl ɪst /

especially British, pastellist

noun

1. an artist who draws with pastels. pastel.

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Etymology

Origin of pastelist

First recorded in 1880–85; pastel ¹ + -ist

Example Sentences

Vigée Le Brun’s father was a pastelist, though not an especially successful one.

From Los Angeles Times

Only seven years before, the Italian pastelist Rosalba Carriera had visited Paris and found duchesses and princesses imploring her to do their portraits.

From Time Magazine Archive

My greatest sorrow was that I had lost a magnificent portrait of my mother by Bassompierre Severin, a pastelist very much à la mode under the Empire; an oil portrait of my father, and a very pretty pastel of my sister Jeanne.

From Project Gutenberg