Definition of "scene-painting" [scene-painting]

• A department of the art of painting governed by the laws of perspective, applied to the peculiar exigencies of the theatrical stage. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "The atmosphere and scene-painting are as good as Rebecca -- it's the same landscape (Cornwall) a century earlier."
• "But they also encouraged them to choose mates with sewing and scene-painting skills."
• "The dresses of the actresses, the furniture, the scene-painting, the instruction of raw Norwegian actors and actresses, the selection of plays, now to please himself, now to please the bourgeois of Bergen, all this must be done by the poet or not done at all."