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Painter of a house? Nonsense! (5)

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I believe the answer is:

corot

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'painter' is the definition.
(I know that Corot is a painter)

'a house? nonsense' is the wordplay.
'a house?' becomes 'co' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'nonsense' becomes 'rot' (rot can mean nonsense or rubbish).
'co'+'rot'='COROT'

'of' is the link.

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(Other definitions for corot that I've seen before include "French landscape painter, 1796-1875" , "Fr. landscape artist, d. 1875" , "French landscape painter, d. 1875" , "19th century French painter" , "Barbizon School artist" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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