portraitist

American  

[pawr-tri-tist, -trey-, pohr-] / ˈpɔr trɪ tɪst, -treɪ-, ˈpoʊr- /

noun

1. a person who makes portraits.

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portraitist British  

/ -treɪ-, ˈpɔːtrɪtɪst /

noun

1. an artist, photographer, etc, who specializes in portraits

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Etymology

Origin of portraitist

First recorded in 1865–70; portrait + -ist

Example Sentences

Two features define Rembrandt as a portraitist and serve as the measure of his greatness.

From The Wall Street Journal

In 1778 John Singleton Copley, the American émigré artist, fresh from a successful career as a colonial portraitist, turned to this scene.

From The Wall Street Journal

Calling him "one of the great portraitists of the 19th and 20th Centuries", it says the show will illustrate how many of his pictures "double up as icons or examples of the human condition".

From BBC

It will likely reconfirm Mr. Yeo’s status as the go-to portraitist of his generation for Britain’s great and good, as well as for actors, writers, businesspeople, and celebrities from around the world.

From New York Times

The retrospective brings together over 50 works that highlight the portraitist’s interest in how the clothes make the man, or woman.

From New York Times