bench easel
noun1
A bench with an upright board or easel attached at one end, allowing an artist to straddle the bench while working.
- Canvases stood on two homemade bench-easels.1944, Emily Carr, “Studio”, in The House of All Sorts:
- 2013, Shelli Alford, "Tornados in Liberace Workshop," Travelingartist.net, 2 April, 2013, http://www.thetravelingartist.net/2013/04/02/tornados-in-liberace-workshop/ Surprisingly this very tall man worked on a bench easel.