[f. ÆSTHETICS + -IAN after mathematics, mathematician, etc.] One skilled in or devoted to æsthetics; a professor of taste.
1845. Blackw. Mag., LVII. 613. The aesthetician has to lay aside nearly all terms of reprobation, in alluding to the habiliments of ladies of the present day.
1874. Sully, Sensat. & Intuit., 366. Æstheticians in their love of simplicity have persisted in forcing all forms of Art under this one Conception.