portraitist

/'pɔ:tritist/

Thân thiện

A portraitist paints a woman in a sunlit studio.

Definition

1. 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.

Học thuật

Noun

1. a painter or drawer of portraits

Từ đồng nghĩa

• portrait painter
• portrayer
• limner