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Gilbert Stuart tartly maintained that "no one would paint history who could do a portrait," but as the chief depicter of George Washington, he showed that to paint portraits is often to paint great history.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nor does Bracciolini shine as a depicter of character.

From Tacitus and Bracciolini The Annals Forged in the XVth Century by Ross, John Wilson

Bruyère translated and continued Theophrastus; he was a moralist, or rather a depicter of morals.

From Initiation into Literature by Gordon, Home, Sir, Bart.

As a register of facts—as a portrayer of men, singly, or assembled—and as a depicter of actual scenery, art is biography, history, and topography taught through the eye.

From Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry by Rolleston, T. W. (Thomas William)

His art holds, too, something of that breathlessness among the trees one finds in Watteau and in Lancret, maybe more akin to Lancret, for he, also, was more a depicter of the ephemeral.

From Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets by Hartley, Marsden