0 a person who is skilled at the art of calligraphy (= producing beautiful writing, often with a special pen or brush): --
Chinese calligraphers
He was also a musician, a calligrapher, and a draughtsman.
Zheng was one of the most respected and influential calligraphers of the 20th.
He was also an artist, calligrapher, sculptor, writer and philosopher.
At school, he mastered his textbooks and became a good calligrapher in such a short time that even the venerable elders acknowledged their inferiority.
Quill pens are still used today mainly by professional scribes and calligraphers.
In order that they might be utilised as designs for students, they were carefully annotated by a skilled calligrapher and placed into a leather portfolio.
The resulting product would be a painting that would include the work of a calligrapher to write a poem.
It was traditionally believed that the frequent practice of these principles as a beginning calligrapher could ensure beauty in one's writing.
