[ad. F. luminariste (Littré, Suppl.), f. L. lūmin-, lūmen light.] A painter who treats light effectively, or whose ‘color’ is luminous.
1888. Academy, 21 Jan., 48/2. The finest works of that great and subtle luminarist Adrian van Ostade.
a. 1900. R. A. M. Stevenson, Introd. Armstrong’s Sir H. Raeburn (1901), 18. Oil-paint is the least abstract or conventional of the mediums. It is the medium of the luminarist and the man who would render an account of the full aspect of nature.
