animaliern.
/anᵻˈmalɪeɪ/, U.S. /ˌænəməˈliər/ Art.
An artist, esp. a sculptor, who depicts animals.
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1884 W. Armstrong tr. G. Perrot & C. Chipiez Hist. Art in Chaldæa & Assyria II. v. 389 The Assyrian sculptors were, perhaps, the foremost animaliers of all antiquity.
1926 C. Saunier Louis Barye 26 The set of table ornaments ordered by the Duc d'Orléans..was to have comprised nine groups modelled by the great animalier.
1958 Times 16 Oct. 4/4 J.-L. Agasse, the highly accomplished animalier of the Prince Regent's circle, gives in his ‘Two Leopards’, if not exactly a great picture, a brilliant study of animal life.
2002 N.Y. Sun (Nexis) 16 Dec. 13 One of the most famous of American 20th-century sculptors, renowned as an animalier, created the Marti statue.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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