How to Use portraitist in a Sentence

portraitist

noun
  • Prachakul then went to work in casting — an ideal job for a future portraitist, as she was paid to look at faces.
    — New York Times, 3 Feb. 2021
  • But maybe the offending self-portraitist could give performance art a whirl?
    — Karen Brill, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Mar. 2017
  • The portraitist, a woman from Paris, has to take a boat and then scale a rocky cliff, art supplies strapped to her back, to get to the house.
    — Elaine Blair, The New York Review of Books, 1 Dec. 2020
  • There Lange found patrons for a studio of her own and became a successful portraitist of the city’s élite.
    — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 11 May 2020
  • Despite his large canvas, Rich is a gifted portraitist of his three main characters.
    — New York Times, 17 Jan. 2018
  • Matt was also a talented portraitist, but even that skill had its ominous side, warns Del Toro.
    — Michael Ordoña, latimes.com, 17 June 2019
  • Byrne's leg bones feature in the background of a painting of Hunter by famed portraitist Joshua Reynolds.
    — Lianne Kolirin, CNN, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Not one of the portraits captures her, and that’s because her portraitists, though highly skilled, are highly compromised.
    — Lili Anolik, Vanity Fair, 12 Jan. 2026
  • The camera shots are meditative, as if Zinn were a portraitist trying to capture the still being of these girls.
    — Jessie Zinn, The New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2022
  • The younger woman played the piano and was also an accomplished portraitist, and the duo painted together.
    — Claudine Doury, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Oct. 2020
  • Dan Winters is a photographer and portraitist based in Austin, Texas.
    — New York Times, 12 Nov. 2021
  • Dan Winters is a photographer and portraitist based in Austin, Texas.
    — Steven Johnson, New York Times, 17 May 2024
  • Lucian Freud, Bacon’s foremost competitor—and, for many years, his best friend—was a portraitist, too.
    — Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 17 May 2021
  • Hamilton said that the style of the work is that of Opie, who was a master portraitist and 14 years Turner’s senior.
    — Harrison Jacobs, ARTnews.com, 14 May 2026
  • Sofonisba, the more compelling and modern of the two, was a sensitive portraitist whose work is easy to recognize.
    — Deborah Solomon, New York Times, 16 Dec. 2019
  • The couple settled in Boston, where Lee became a portraitist and William a landscape painter.
    — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 7 July 2018
  • Based on drawings by court portraitist François Clouet and artists in his circle, many of these characters make eye contact with the viewer.
    — Judith H. Dobrzynski, WSJ, 4 Dec. 2018
  • Loren Cameron, a transgender portraitist who captured some of the quotidian aspects of trans life, died late last year at the age of 63.
    — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2023
  • Still, the 150-plus examples of Katz’s deftness and style, both as a portraitist and as a colorist, yield certain standouts.
    — Gabé Hirschowitz, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Renowned Spanish genre painter and portraitist Raimundo de Madrazo’s paintings of people will be on display.
    — Alyson Rodriguez, Dallas Morning News, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Renowned Spanish genre painter and portraitist Raimundo de Madrazo’s paintings of people will be on display.
    — Alyson Rodriguez, Dallas Morning News, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Wiley is best-known as the official portraitist of President Barack Obama.
    — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 21 July 2023
  • But on Friday, an employee noticed that something was off with the photograph, shot by renowned portraitist Yousuf Karsh.
    — Mckenna Oxenden, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Picasso was a master portraitist, and the majority of his portraits were of women, and the majority of the women were his lovers, present, past, and even, in some cases, future.
    — John Banville, The New Republic, 16 Nov. 2021
  • The early American portraitist is perhaps most well-known for his unfinished portrait of George Washington.
    — Lauren Daley, BostonGlobe.com, 15 May 2018
  • There’s the account of Abraham Lincoln selecting Brady to be his portraitist for the 1860 election.
    — Errol Morris, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2017
  • Barkley Hendricks, a portraitist and underground virtuoso, solidifies his place in the canon with a solo show at the Frick — its first ever for a Black artist.
    — Roberta Smith, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Dora Kallmus, better known as Madame d’Ora, was a talented portraitist who found theatrical spectacle in many of her subjects.
    — Edward Rothstein, WSJ, 7 Mar. 2020
  • When a woman portraitist arrives on the scene, the movie becomes a tribute to the beauty of the French coast, the often unmarked lives of everyday women in history, and the passion that simmers there.
    — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 7 June 2022
  • Enter William Bache, a portraitist who traveled from town to town with a wooden machine, which could render an accurate, two-dimensional depiction of one’s face for only a few cents.
    — Smithsonianmag.com, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Aug. 2023

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