portraitist

[pawr-tri-tist, -trey-, pohr-]

noun

a person who makes portraits.

Origin of portraitist

First recorded in 1865–70; portrait + -ist

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Contemporary Examples of portraitist

This week: Philip Larkin goes Hollywood, the portrait of a portraitist, and getting rich quick in China.
Best of Brit Lit
Peter Stothard
April 2, 2009

Historical Examples of portraitist

His brother Jean was known as a portraitist of great ability.
Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders
George Wharton Edwards
As a portraitist, Titian's is the only name to be coupled with that of Velasquez.
Franz Liszt
James Huneker
The first duty of the portraitist is to generalize the expression of his subject.
Art Principles
Ernest Govett
A Portraitist is a person who paints what other people don't think he sees.
Mr. Punch's History of Modern England Vol. IV of IV.
Charles L. Graves
Her eyes were not large, nor yet luminous; smothered fire would have been the verdict of a portraitist.
Painted Veils
James Huneker

British Dictionary definitions for portraitist

portraitist

noun

an artist, photographer, etc, who specializes in portraits

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