Tytgat was considered a mediocre painter, but was more highly regarded as an illustrator.

Another time, he lost because a few other students had been competing for years, and Vien felt David's education could wait for these other mediocre painters.

He has been called "a mediocre if fashionable academic painter", and a "somewhat gifted painter of religious and historical subjects".

Another mediocre painter, Vaga from Toscanella, undertook to settle the boy in Rome.

Despite some European training, the Maryland-born artist was a mediocre painter at best.

Acting on his own initiative he found a mediocre painter whose technique was sound, and took some lessons in perspective from him.

The radical curricula and behaviourist experiments at these universities dissuaded some students from becoming mediocre painters and provoked them to express their artistic ideas in other ways.

The demand for these portraits in turn kept a good number of mediocre painters in business.

He was said to have trained with a mediocre painter by the name of Antonio Aureggio in Brescia.

In addition, he's a mediocre painter, at his best when he dispenses with canvas altogether, as happens only once here.