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portraitist

[ pawr-tri-tist, -trey-, pohr- ]

noun

  1. a person who makes portraits.


portraitist

/ -treɪ-; ˈpɔːtrɪtɪst /

noun

  1. an artist, photographer, etc, who specializes in portraits
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of portraitist1

First recorded in 1865–70; portrait + -ist
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Calling him "one of the great portraitists of the 19th and 20th Centuries", it says the show will illustrate how many of his pictures "double up as icons or examples of the human condition".

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It will likely reconfirm Mr. Yeo’s status as the go-to portraitist of his generation for Britain’s great and good, as well as for actors, writers, businesspeople, and celebrities from around the world.

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The retrospective brings together over 50 works that highlight the portraitist’s interest in how the clothes make the man, or woman.

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It’s no surprise that George Eliot, the great portraitist of unhappy Victorian couples, did marriage her own way.

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From his beginnings in fashion to his development as a portraitist, his photography consisted of staged performances where he enthralled sitters with his charm.

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