He first studied with his father, Eiji, a minor painter of the Kanō school.
They are lingering in front of an obscure but expensive work by a minor painter.
Zacharias was a minor painter when he wasn't living off his mistresses, and reputedly a dissolute.
If he was a minor painter, he had an unerring eye for the art of others, as this show makes clear.
He identified five major and three minor painters.
Ustad Mansur started his career during the last few years of Akbar's reign as a minor painter.
Boit was an "American cosmopolite" and a minor painter.
Today, from a distance of several decades, Shahn seems a talented draftsman and photographer but a minor painter tethered to his era.
A minor painter, he spent his whole career producing paintings of great moments in French history for whatever regime was in power at the time.
Percy had a successful career in the mining industry, and Herbert was a minor painter.