Word: draughtsman
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...somewhat gloomy type, but all are strong and majestic. He had none of the gentler or finer qualities essential to the painter, for he was not a painter, as he himself said, but a sculptor. He had a great command of line and was probably the most wonderful draughtsman that ever lived. His subjects are almost all religious. He had many followers but none of them could give what Michael Angelo did, that is the imprint of a strong individuality, and accordingly none of them amounted to much...
...Smith said that the transition in engraving from mediocre to supreme excellence has been very rapid in America. The early process, by which the draughtsman with infinite pains and difficulty reproduced upon wood the work of the painter, was soon replaced by the art of photographing directly upon the wood, and skilful artists began to take the place of the draughtsman. Three things were necessary to lift engraving from the difficult, expensive and unsatisfactory early process to that high position as an art which it has held for many years. These were, first, an artist, then an engraver, and last...