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portraitist

[ UK /pˈɔːtɹɪtˌɪst/ ]
NOUN
  1. a painter or drawer of portraits

How To Use portraitist In A Sentence

  • They were primarily portraitists, but Thomas is now chiefly remembered for his dramatic Boadicea monument at Westminster Bridge, London, showing the fearsome warrior queen in her chariot.
  • Though best-known for his fantastic novel " Lanark, " Mr. Gray worked for many years as a portraitist, and provides a typically distinctive and opinionated account of his life, times and acquaintances in words and pictures. Books to Furnish a Coffee Table
  • When the Irish portraitist, Nathaniel Hone painted her in 1765, she was at the height of her popularity.
  • As Anna, the arty portraitist, Julia Roberts starts slowly-she's the living embodiment of a certain style of knit-browed overconcern Hollywood stars fall back on, especially when forced to act with Brits-but she gathers a serious head of steam, and by the credits has delivered a fine performance. Upmarket, Tastefully Dirty And Deeply Uninvolving
  • 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. David Schonauer: How Herb Ritts Created the Idols We Deserved
  • Like Rembrandt, his contemporaries among the Restoration portraitists favoured fanciful mythological guises.
  • 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. 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. Edward Goldman: The Three Most Delicious Art Exhibitions Around the World This October
  • 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. David Schonauer: How Herb Ritts Created the Idols We Deserved
  • He would go on to be knighted and become a celebrated portraitist, the darling of society and a very rich man.
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