Noah Webster
Artist
'ARTIST, noun [Latin ars. See Art.]
1. One skilled in an art or trade; one who is master or professor of a manual art; a good workman in any trade.
2. A skilful man; not a novice.
3. In an academical sense, a proficient in the faculty of arts; a philosopher.
4. One skilled in the fine arts; as a painter, sculptor, architect, etc.