Crossword clues for portraitist
portraitist
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Portraitist \Por"trait*ist\, n.
A portrait painter. [R.]
--Hamerton.
Wiktionary
n. A painter or photographer who makes portraits
WordNet
n. a painter or drawer of portraits [syn: portrait painter, portrayer, limner]
Usage examples of "portraitist".
It was all stillness, filled with bright sunlight that burnished the ancient wood pieces, gave them a mellow glow and brought into focus the old paintings of her ancestors by such master portraitists as Lely, Gainsborough and Romney.
He assumed a suit of armor only to pose for the court portraitist and never wore one into battle.
One after the other, they had sat bristling with weaponry before the portraitist for the long exposure.
African-American portraitist to have his work hang in the White House.
Coloured photography merely records and preserves, in an easily reproducible form, the raw materials with which portraitists and landscape painters work.