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.