pavement artist

American  

noun

Chiefly British.

1. sidewalk artist.

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Etymology

Origin of pavement artist

First recorded in 1895–1900

Example Sentences

He was a pavement artist and he had a pitch outside the railings of the great terminus in Euston Road, where he used to sit and patronise London.

From Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile by Murray, David Christie

Because there is a decadent art about, one need not make a hero of the pavement artist.

From The Practice and Science of Drawing by Speed, Harold

Even the pavement artist will destroy his work rather than allow some poor wretch to sit beside his pictures and collect an alms.

From A Surgeon in Belgium by Souttar, Henry Sessions

I'm a fust-rate judge of character, though I be but a pavement artist; but a picture's none the less a picture, no matter where it is drawn.

From Vain Fortune by Moore, George (George Augustus)

It is a loathsome idea to think that a man of the type of Sargent is of the same noble profession as the pavement artist.

From Sally Bishop A Romance by Thurston, E. Temple (Ernest Temple)