wiki-illiam #109: q2

[dubdobdee]

2. Who:

i: was a red head?
ii: was strabismic?
iii: was a little dyer?
iv: was the little old painter of the hospital?
v: was so-named because his brother was portly?
vi: was so-named because his father was a gardener?
vii: was so-named because he liked to paint birds?
viii: used a trefoil signature?
ix: was Clumsy Tom?
x: was Little Tom?

Nicknames of either Italian painters or of Renaissance painters (or maybe all kinds of painters).

Some questionable still, some with more than one possible. All looked up, except possibly anatol_merklich's :)
i: is Titian, per jauntyalan, or Dürer per alextiefling & friend_of_tofu
ii: is Gian-Francesco Barbieri, aka Guercino, per jauntyalan
iii: is Tintoretto, per dubdobdee
iv: is Lorenzo di Pietro aka Vecchietta, the hospital being Santa Maria della Scala in Siena, per riverchild
v: is most likely Botticelli, per anatol_merklich, tho could possibly be Giovanni di Ser Giovanni , aka Lo Scheggia and brother of xi, per riverchild
vi: could be Domenico Ghirlandaio, which means rather than gardener means "garlander", which is also not what his dad was (tho his forebears probably were), per riverchild
vii: is Paolo di Dono aka Uccello, per jauntyalan
ix: Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Mone aka Masacchio", per jauntyalan
x: is ix's main collaborator Masolino per anatol_merklich