rhyparographs

Noun

rhyparograph (plural rhyparographs)

1. A painter of sordid or distasteful subjects.
   • And Pyreicus, who painted, with all the diligence of a Dutch artist, nothing but barbers' shops, filthy factories, donkeys and cabbages as if that kind of thing had so much charm in Nature and were so rarely to be seen, got the nickname of the rhyparograph, the dirt-painter, although the luxurious...1985, H. B. Nisbet, editor, German Aesthetic and Literary Criticism