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portraitist
noun[ C ]
art specialized uk /ˈpɔː.trə.tɪst//ˈpɔː.treɪ.tɪst/ us /ˈpɔːr.trɪt̬.ɪst/
an artist who paints, draws, or photographs portraits(= pictures of people):
Reynolds was the leading portraitist of his generation.
An American portraitist, she paints African Americans in everyday settings.
He was highly renowned as a portraitist in his native Austria.
Favray worked as a portraitist all over Europe.
Society portraitists could achieve enormous celebrity in that period.
Copley was a portraitist who earned his fame by painting George Washington and other American patriots.
Portraitists would represent their subjects in poses that idealized family life.
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