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How to pronounce portraitist in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms limner, portrait painter, portrayer
Type of painter
Derivation portray

Examples of portraitist

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George Luks was a portraitist, too, but more programmatically realist than Henri.
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Worked as a portraitist with a style that recalled the Spaniard Francisco Goya.
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Call him a pedagogue of antique warfare and portraitist of erstwhile cultures.
From the washingtontimes.com
Sometimes she lapsed into the complacent professionalism of a society portraitist.
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The Scottish portraitist Allan Ramsay spent three years in Solimena's studio.
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As he rose in prominence, Raphael became a favorite portraitist of the popes.
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His pupil Oskar Kokoschka was an important portraitist of the Viennese upper class.
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Freud is the finest self-portraitist our country has seen this past century.
From the guardian.co.uk
Another prominent American portraitist who trained abroad was William Merritt Chase.
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More examples
  • A painter or drawer of portraits
  • A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expression is predominant. The intent is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person. ...
  • The Portraitist is a 2005 Polish television documentary film about the life and work of Wilhelm Brasse, the famous "photographer of Auschwitz", made for TVP1, Poland, which first aired in its "Proud to Present" series on January 1, 2006. ...
  • An artist who specializes in portraits.