ˈpicture-ˌdrawer
One who draws a picture; in 17th and early 18th c., the regular word for portrait-painter.
| 1586–7 in Jeaffreson Middlesex County Rec. (1886) I. 173 Edmund Barton picture drawer. 1635 J. Hayward tr. Biondi's Banish'd Virg. 115 The Philosophers (humanities picture-drawers) have indeede drawne many pictures. a 1715 Burnet Own Time (1766) I. 24 Sir Anthony Vandike, the famous picture drawer. a 1734 North Lives (1826) III. 280 One Mr. Blemwell, a picture-drawer. |
So picture-drawing.
| 1625 in Rymer Foedera (1726) XVIII. 111 Wee, haveing experience of the Facultie and Skill of Daniel Mittens in the Art of Picture draweing, of Our especiall Grace..have given [etc.]. |