posture-maker

'A select Populace, with money in its purse, and drilled a little by the posture-maker: good Heavens! if that were what, here and every where in God's Creation, I _am_?

The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 Various

Meanwhile the crowds in the streets fled this way and that as a throng of uproarious young fellows drove before them the bulls that were to be baited in the open squares; and wherever a recessed doorway or the angle of a building afforded shelter from the rout, some posture-maker or ballad-singer had gathered

The Valley of Decision Edith Wharton 1899

Follet readily accepted the part: his height was heroic, he was a skilled posture-maker, he was well versed in the duties of a mime.

A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character Dutton Cook 1856