WordNet
portrait painter
n. a painter or drawer of portraits [syn: portraitist, portrayer, limner]
Usage examples of "portrait painter".
A pair of portraits, husband and wife, by a celebrated and fashionable portrait painter of his day.
He is married to Agatha Troy, a celebrated portrait painter, who frequently offers useful suggestions to her husband when he is involved on a difficult case.
A good portrait painter must be something of a natural psychologist.
He was not the sort to tell war storiesindeed, he allways avoided saying anything, according to the portrait painter Charles Willson Peale, who admired him for it, of the actions in which he [had been] Engaged.