Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A person who makes portraits, especially a painter or photographer.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A maker of portraits; a portrait-painter; one who devotes his attention particularly to portraits, as a photographer.
Wiktionary
- n. A painter or photographer who makes portraits
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. rare A portrait painter.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a painter or drawer of portraits
Examples
“His brother Jean was known as a portraitist of great ability.”
“Hans Holbein, a German painter, came to England in 1526 to make his fortune as a portraitist.”
“Long before apps like Hipstamatic made anyone with a smartphone a self-styled retro portraitist, folk produced their artsy pics the old-fashioned way: with a Polaroid.”
The Washington Post: Getting Up Guide: Gary Williams goes live at Caddie's
“Other artists include expressionist portraitist Chantal Joffe, taxidermy specialist Polly Morgan, designer Pam Hogg pictured and Marcus Harvey, best-known for that tabloid-shocker painting of Myra Hindley, realised with children's hand-prints.”
“Hambling, the portraitist and sculptor, will join James Lloyd, a former winner of the BP Portrait award, painter Emrys Williams and Royal Academician Chris Orr, along with the writers Pullman and Willy Russell, in a sale of original images, all donated to promote the cause of drawing.”
The Guardian: Artists' self-portraits to raise money for drawing campaign
“Alice Neel, a great American portraitist who died in 1984, fits this description to a T.”
“He has pieced together a portrait of the portraitist from stories told by nearly 100 of the photographer's friends, relatives, lovers, and business associates.”
The Huffington Post: David Schonauer: How Herb Ritts Created the Idols We Deserved
“Charles Churchwood, the author of the new book, is the former design director of Vogue and Vanity Fair magazines, two of Ritts's most important showcases, and he has pieced together a portrait of the portraitist from stories told by nearly 100 of the photographer's friends, relatives, lovers, and business associates.”
The Huffington Post: David Schonauer: How Herb Ritts Created the Idols We Deserved
“Top lot in the sale will be a delicate painting of Anne, Viscountess Pollington, in a white dress with a rose at the bodice, playing with her son, John Charles, by fashionable 19th-century portraitist Sir Thomas Lawrence estimate: £300,000-£500,000.”
“Primarily a genre painter and portraitist, Hals was able to make his figures seem about to burst from the canvas; a habitual "arm over the back of the chair" pose enhanced the effect.”
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