portraitist
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of portraitist
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Two features define Rembrandt as a portraitist and serve as the measure of his greatness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 24, 2026
Following his devastating turns in “Aftersun” and “All of Us Strangers,” there may be no better portraitist of sorrow-wracked loneliness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2025
For more than 80 years, the location of late-baroque Italian portraitist Giuseppe Ghislandi's painting of the Contessa Colleoni had been unknown until now.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2025
It’s no surprise that George Eliot, the great portraitist of unhappy Victorian couples, did marriage her own way.
From New York Times ● Jun. 9, 2023
A true child of the Renaissance, he also painted a number of religious pictures, numerous mythological scenes, allegories, nymphs, cupids and subjects from Ovid’s fables, but he excelled as a portraitist.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" by Various
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