scene designer
scene painter
set designer

Like the trained scene painter that he was, he leaves every option open.

Rae Smith worked as a scene painter.

From 1781 to 1794, he was a scene painter at Covent Garden.

He then spent two years doing various jobs including being a milkman, gardener, steel worker, nursing assistant, theatre carpenter and scene painter.

He subsequently worked as a stage carpenter and scene painter in Toronto.

He began in his father's occupation, that of a theatrical scene painter.

Soyer was referred to as an American scene painter.

It is still widely used by scene painters, although acrylic has made inroads in that field as well.

Later he obtained a job as a scene painter; and he alternated between these two occupations for about eight years.

He was also the principal scene painter at the Haymarket Theatre.