academician

[ ak-uh-duh-mish-uh n, uh-kad-uh- ]

/ ˌæk ə dəˈmɪʃ ən, əˌkæd ə- /

a member of an association or institution for the advancement of arts, sciences, or letters.

a follower or promoter of the traditional trends in philosophy, art, or literature: Reforms were instituted over the protests of the academicians.

Origin of academician

1740–50; < French académicien, equivalent to académic- academic + -ien -ian

non·a·cad·e·mi·cian, noun

He needs to display a level of skill that brings him closer to an American sign-painter than to a French academician.

Hopper: So Bad He's Good |Blake Gopnik |August 5, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
The line of art pursued by my very ingenious predecessor and brother Academician, Mr. Penny.

The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 |Charles Lamb
You will not be an Academician, but you will always be my dear little lover.

Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo |Louis Guimbaud
They unanimously elected me an Academician, and I have received the diploma.

Art in England |Dutton Cook

The Academician was displeased, and made no reply; and they were very glad of it, so much had the Druids bored them.

Bouvard and Pcuchet |Gustave Flaubert
For this sort of art school Whistler had no toleration—its product is the amateur or Academician.

The Life of James McNeill Whistler |Elizabeth Robins Pennell

academician

/ (əˌkædəˈmɪʃən, ˌækədə-) /

a member of an academy (sense 1)