pastelist
noun
an artist who draws with pastels.
pastellist
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a variation of
pastelist.
Example Sentences
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He was a child prodigy and was making money in Bath as a pastellist from the age of 11.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 4, 2010
Latour was the greatest pastellist of the eighteenth century, and he never attempted more than a drawing heightened with colour.
From Mike Fletcher A Novel by George (George Augustus) Moore
His was not a romantic or a graceful figure among his contemporaries, the pastellist La Tour, Fragonard, and the rest, nor had his personality a jot of the mysterious melancholy of Watteau.
From Promenades of an Impressionist by James Huneker
She is a pastellist of note, and some of her pastels are as good as Manet's and Degas's, so far as broad execution and brilliancy and delicacy of tones are concerned.
From The French Impressionists (1860-1900) by Camille Mauclair
Degas, the incomparable pastellist, the faultless draughtsman, the bitter, satirical, pessimistic genius, is an isolated phenomenon in his period, a grand creator, unattached to his time.
From The French Impressionists (1860-1900) by Camille Mauclair
