Colorist n. One who colors; an artist who excels in the use of colors; one to whom coloring is of prime importance. "Titian, Paul Veronese, Van Dyck, and the rest of the good colorists."
... whenever (as in the second act) there is a parallelism in situation; but he has, nevertheless, maintained an individual lyricism which proclaims him an ingenuous musician of the kind that the art never needed so much as it needs it now. As a national colorist Mr. Paderewski put new things upon the ... — Chapters of Opera • Henry Edward Krehbiel