What this show suggests is that Hopper was never much of a figure painter.

At the end of the first world war Thomson established himself as a commercial artist and figure painter.

William Shayer, senior was a competent landscape artist, but he is best known as a figure painter.

Corot the figure painter was important to Braque, among many others.

He was a figure painter for whom history painting was the key to art heaven.

Another brother, Butler Harrison (died 1886), was a figure painter.

He was best known as a figure painter, also creating still lives and landscape paintings.

It was signed by Mortimer Temple, a well-known figure painter.

I started my career as a figure painter, but if figures appear now, they're in crowds.

Cited by critics as the preeminent figure painter of the 1960s to 2000s, he led a revival in realist art.