pinxit

American  

[pingk-sit] / ˈpɪŋk sɪt /

verb

Latin.

1. he or she painted (it): formerly used on paintings as part of the artist's signature.

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pinxit British  

/ ˈpɪŋksɪt /

1. he (or she) painted it: an inscription sometimes found on paintings following the artist's name

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Example Sentences

This was too much for Castillo, and he accordingly inscribed his Baptism of St. Francis, executed for the Capuchin convent, where his juvenile rival was likewise employed, "Non pinxit Alfaro."

From Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects and Curiosities of Art (Vol. 3 of 3) by Spooner, Shearjashub

Nor is that of the Duke of Calabria less excellent, where, in going to the chase, he meets with the holy hermit, a picture upon which the artist inscribed, Daniel Crispus Mediolanensis pinxit hoc templum.

From The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. IV (of 6) from the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century by Lanzi, Luigi Antonio

Pinxit, pingk′sit, v.i. and v.t. he or she painted—used in noting the painter of a picture, as Rubens pinxit.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

All these lovely things are in the "Purification," which is dated Bernardinus Lovinus pinxit, MDXXV.

From New Italian sketches by Symonds, John Addington

Excvdit figvras pinxit atqve in æs incidit Nicolavs-Fridericvs Eisenbergervs sereniss.

From The Old English Herbals by Rohde, Eleanour Sinclair