A flattering painter, who made it his care

To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.

Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774): Retaliation. Line 63.

With hue like that when some great painter dips

His pencil in the gloom of earthquake and eclipse.

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822): The Revolt of Islam. Canto v. Stanza 23.

Yet truth will sometimes lend her noblest fires,

And decorate the verse herself inspires:

This fact, in virtue's name, let Crabbe attest,—

Though Nature's sternest painter, yet the best.

Lord Byron 1788-1824: English Bards and Scotch Reviewers. Line 839.