portraitist
/'pɔ:tritist/
Definition
- Noun:
- A painter or drawer of portraits: A portraitist is an artist who specializes in creating portraits, which are artistic representations of a person, especially one depicting the face or head and shoulders.
Examples of Usage
- Noun:
- The museum featured works by a famous 19th-century portraitist.
- She hired a skilled portraitist to paint a likeness of her family.
Advanced Usage
- The term is often used to distinguish an artist whose primary body of work or expertise is in portraiture, as opposed to other genres like landscape or still life.
- While he dabbled in landscapes, he was primarily known as a portraitist to the aristocracy.
Variants and Related Words
- Portrait (n): A painting, drawing, photograph, or engraving of a person, especially one depicting only the face or head and shoulders.
- She sat for her portrait.
- Portraiture (n): The art or practice of making portraits.
- He studied the techniques of portraiture.
Synonyms
- Portrait painter: An artist who paints portraits.
- Limmer (archaic): A painter, especially of portraits.
Related Phrases
- Sit for a portraitist: To pose as a subject for a portrait artist.
- The queen agreed to sit for the court portraitist.
Noun
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a painter or drawer of portraits
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