copyist

Example Sentences

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To support himself in New York, he served as an assistant and copyist for the composer and critic Virgil Thomson, who paid the young man $20 a week and gave him lessons in orchestration.

From Washington Post • Nov. 18, 2022

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

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 26, 2019

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

As a bridge-builder he has had many successful imitators, but as a balloonist he is yet more than a match for his bigger copyist, homo sapiens, as I shall explain in a subsequent paper.

From Eye Spy Afield with Nature Among Flowers and Animate Things by Gibson, W. Hamilton (William Hamilton)