copyist

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A woman develops a special bond with composer Ludwig van Beethoven while working as his copyist.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 26, 2019

“Halloo old John, I wrote this letter,” copyist Harriet Straub wrote in the margin of one.

From Washington Post • Nov. 9, 2018

In February and March this year, he spent one day a week in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s copyist program, creating interpretation of masterpieces with his easel set up in galleries.

From New York Times • May 21, 2017

Paderni was a painter and copyist from Rome, who had come to Herculaneum to reproduce some of the villa’s wall paintings.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 16, 2015

This song gives you an idea of the miserable copyist I have had ever since Schlemmer's death.

From Life of Beethoven by Schindler, Anton