painting-room

In describing a painting session, one of Sir Henry Raeburn's sitters said, ...and then having placed me in a chair on a platform at the end of his painting-room, in the posture required, he set up his easel beside me with a canvas ready to receive the colour.

Demons, Demons James Gurney 2010

The windows of their painting-room looked into a quaint old garden, where there were ancient statues of the Imperial time, a babbling fountain and noble orange-trees with broad clustering leaves and golden balls of fruit, glorious to look upon.

The Newcomes 2006

He appeared at the various board-rooms and City conclaves, yawned at the meetings, and drew figures on the blotting-paper of the Company; had no interest in its transactions, no heart in its affairs; went away and galloped his horse alone; or returned to his painting-room, put on his old velvet jacket, and worked with his palettes and brushes.

The Newcomes 2006

Clive was in his painting-room, and lest he should meet his son, and in order to devise the best means of breaking the news to the lad, Thomas

The Newcomes 2006

And there hangs up in his painting-room now, a head, painted at one sitting, of a man rather bald, with hair touched with grey, with a large moustache, and a sweet mouth half smiling beneath it, and melancholy eyes; and

The Newcomes 2006

He passed hours in his painting-room, though he tore up what he did there.

The Newcomes 2006

Street, which was not very distant from their barracks; the most splendid cabs were seen prancing before his door; and curly-whiskered youths, of aristocratic appearance, smoking cigars out of his painting-room window.

The Newcomes 2006

He had found it impossible to say all that he had to say in the painting-room during the very short intervals which Mrs Broughton left to him.

The Last Chronicle of Barset 2004

“And is the painting-room to be in Green Street also?” asked Docimer.

Ayala's Angel 2004

He now professed himself more than ever enamoured of the Flemish school, raved in extravagant encomiums, and proposed that the whole company should pay homage to the memory of the divine Rubens, by repairing forthwith to the house in which he lived, and prostrating themselves on the floor of his painting-room.

The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle 2004