portraitist
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- noun
- /ˈpɔrtrətɪst/
:
retrattista
- We know from contemporary accounts and from surviving works that Cabarrus was a competent portraitist who worked in pen and ink, watercolor, and oil.
- a well-known portraitist
- a society portraitist
Examples
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"Marchand flourished in the '40s as a photographer of varied stripe, but he was best known as a portraitist."
Fiction book (1999) -
Instead, she and her portraitist trade in the universal language of youth and beauty.
Academic text (2011) -
In the face of this, as a portraitist, I still try to fight back, to defy that life cycle.
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Her ten years as a studio portraitist were financially successful, but personally unfulfilling.
Academic text (1995) -
After high school and teacher training, she worked for Arnold Genthe, a well-known society portraitist, performing multiple photographic tasks.
Academic text (1995) -
This is a rancher in Texas by William Albert Allard, a great portraitist, and Jane Goodall making her own special connection, photographed by Nick Nichols.
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The portraitist captured her subject's personality perfectly in the painting.
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He hired a talented portraitist to paint a family portrait for their anniversary.
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As a renowned portraitist, she has painted many famous personalities throughout her career.
Synonyms
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A person who makes art like paintings or sculptures with imagination and feeling
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A person who makes pictures using colour on canvas or paper
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A person who makes pictures of people, usually showing their 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
Etymology
Portraitist starts with portrait, which is related to the verb portray that once meant 'to show' or 'to bring forward'. So a portraitist is someone who 'shows' a person by drawing or painting their face.