Painter-Stainer
= painter1 1 and 2.
The name by which the members of the City of London Livery Company of Painters (which included painters in senses 1 and 2), are designated in their charter, in which connexion it has continued in use to the present day. The restriction of meaning stated in quot. 1706, and repeated in later Dicts., does not seem to be in accordance with facts.
| 1504 Deed in J. G. Crace Comp. Painter-Stainers (1880), John Browne paynter-steyner. 1581 Charter Painters Comp. Lond., Liberi Homines et Cives Civitatis London Artis sive Misterii pictorium vocati Anglice Paynters-Steyners. 1582 Grant of Byelaws, The..fellowship of the arte of paynters, alias paynters stayners of the City of London. 1604 Act 1 Jas. I, c. 20 No manner of person..shall..make any manner of worke or workes, or lay any manner of Colour or Colours, Painting or Paintings whatsoeuer, in the sayd Art or Mystery of Painters Stainers aforesaid..vnlesse [etc.]. 1706 Phillips (ed. Kersey), Painter-Stainer, one that makes draughts of, and paints all sorts of Coats of Arms, with other Devices, belonging to the Art of Heraldry. 1709 Strype Ann. Ref. (1824) I. xiii. 268 Forced to become an apprentice for ten years to William Gardiner, painter stainer of London. 1880 J. G. Crace [Master] (title) Some Account of the Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers. Ibid. ad fin., This Company may fairly appeal to all good citizens to join in the wish expressed in their time-honoured toast ‘May the Painter-Stainers' Company flourish root and branch for ever’. |