FTP, name this craft in which Basil Hallward briefly engages to create the title of Oscar Wilde's novel about Dorian Gray.
It is the profession of Walter Hartwright, the ostensible protagonist of Wilkie Collins' Woman in White.  It is also the profession of Noemie Nioche in Henry James' The American and while he is in Paris, Philip Carey attempts this occupation in Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage.  Perhaps more famously it is the eventual vocation of Charles Strickland in another Maugham novel, Moon and Sixpence.  FTP, name this craft in which Basil Hallward briefly engages to create the title of Oscar Wilde's novel about Dorian Gray.
It is the profession of Walter Hartwright, the ostensible protagonist of Wilkie Collins' Woman in White.  
painter or draughtsman (prompt on "artist;" accept word forms like "painting," etc.)