Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Agents Facet
3. People (hierarchy name)
4. people (agents)
5. [people by occupation]
6. [people in the humanities]
7. [people in the arts and related occupations]
8. [people in the arts]
9. [people in the visual arts and related occupations]
10. [people in the visual arts]
11. artists (visual artists)
12. [artists by medium or work type]

Narrower term/s

• [painters by subject of work][+]
  • limners [NP]
  • animal painters (animal subject) [NP]
  • history painters [NP]
  • literati (painters) [NP]
  • genre painters [NP]
  • still life painters [NP]
  • flower painters [NP]
  • theatrical painters
  • landscape painters [NP]
  • portrait painters [NP]
  • miniature painters [NP]
  • map painters [NP]
  • letter painters
  • decorative painters
  • figure painters
  • hunt painters
  • façade painters
  • staffage painters
• [painters by technique, implement, or material employed][+]
  • grainers
  • stencilers
  • watercolorists
  • glass painters
  • fabric painters
  • sand painters
  • encaustic painters
  • fresco painters
  • pottery painters
  • oil painters
  • tempera painters
  • panel painters
  • porcelain painters
  • academic painters [NP]
  • enamel painters
  • airbrush artists
  • faience painters
  • grisaillists
  • wallpaper painters
• [painters by location or context][+]
  • muralists (painters) [+]
    • graffiti artists
    • ceiling painters (artists)
  • coach painters
  • vase painters
  • matte artists
  • street artists
  • polychromers [+]
    • dancheongjang
  • altarpiece painters
  • façade painters
  • personal painters
  • court painters
  • church painters
  • sculpture painters
  • fan painters
  • iconographers (painters)
  • mouth painters
  • foot painters
  • yixue

Anotations

Scope note:

People who practice the art of painting, which is applying pigments suspended in liquid to a surface to create an expressive or communicative image. For people who apply paint primarily to protect or give simple color to a surface, use "painters (tradespeople)."