animalier
animalier noun: an artist who depicts animals.
Noun
animalier (plural animaliers)
- An artist who depicts animals.
- Critics and public alike had naturally begged the question of Fremiets relationship to the leading animalier sculptor of his day, Antoine-Louis Barye (1795-1875). Fremiet, however, was determined not to be typecast as just an animalier artist.2004, National Gallery of Victoria, Art Bulletin of Victoria - Issues 44-47, page 13
- Chadwick Thayer had already achieved a local reputation as an animalier when he executed this portrait of the Yorkshire terrier belonging to the Reverend John White Chadwick, who was the pastor of the Second Unitarian Church in Brooklyn (which the Thayer family attended) and who officiated at...2006, Teresa A. Carbone, Barbara Dayer Gallati, American paintings in the Brooklyn Museum: artists born by 1876, page 991
- Synonyms:
- animalist
Synonyms of animalier
Forms of animalier
| plural | animaliers |
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Origin of animalier
Borrowing from French animalier.
Questions about animalier
- What does animalier mean?
- Animalier means an artist who depicts animals.
- What part of speech is animalier?
- Animalier is a noun.
- What is the plural of animalier?
- The plural of animalier is animaliers.
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