portrait painter
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- noun
- /ˈpɔrtrət ˈpeɪntər/
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retrattista
- Being a successful portrait painter often requires strong communication skills to understand the client's vision.
So he says the poets should imitate good portrait painters.
- So he says the poets should imitate good portrait painters.
- Korot was a French landscape and portrait painter as well as a printmaker in etching.
Examples
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NARRATOR 2: Our story begins in the studio of Basil Hallward, a famous portrait painter.
Fiction book (1999) -
That's Stuart Pearson Wright, the portrait painter.
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Shulie was a talented portrait painter.
Blog text (27) -
Born in New Hampshire and raised in New York, Russell established himself as a landscape and portrait painter in the early 1850s.
Blog text (15) -
By 1842, he was in Savannah but working primarily as a portrait painter.
Academic text (2008) -
Raphael Sanzio is one of the greatest portrait painters of all time.
Academic text (2002) -
Korot was a French landscape and portrait painter as well as a printmaker in etching.
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Many famous artists, like Rembrandt, are known for their work as a portrait painter.
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She hired a skilled portrait painter to capture her family's likeness in a beautiful painting.
Synonyms
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A person who paints or draws a picture of someone's face
A person who paints or draws faces so the picture looks like the person
A person who paints or draws portraits before cameras existed
How Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is fully compositional: a 'portrait painter' is simply a painter who paints portraits, directly combining the meanings of 'portrait' and 'painter'. This noun+noun compound follows a common, cross-linguistic pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily understand the expression.
Etymology
Portrait painter comes from the simple image of an artist carefully painting a person's face while the sitter sits still. A portrait is the picture of someone's face and a painter is the person who paints, so the phrase means 'an artist who paints portraits of people'.