Definition of "scene-painter" [scene-painter]

• One who paints scenes or scenery for theaters. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Holmes quipped, [t] he scene-painter, as is often now the case, had shown more talents than the scene-writer"
• "Thrum the great composer satisfactorily arranged; and the new opera underlined in immense capitals in the bills, and put in rehearsal with immense expenditure on the part of the scene-painter and costumier."
• "Not that he entertained the slightest idea of wronging Mr Lupex — a man who was a scene-painter, and knew the world."