portraitist

noun

por·trait·ist ˈpȯr-trə-tist

-ˌtrā-

: a maker of portraits

Examples of portraitist in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Our five-layer CNN learned to distinguish Rembrandt from his students, imitators, and other portraitists with an accuracy of more than 90 percent. —

IEEE Spectrum, 23 Aug. 2021 Dan Winters is a photographer and portraitist based in Austin, Texas. —

Steven Johnson, New York Times, 17 May 2024 For urban folklorists and analysts (such as Spike Lee, Martin Scorsese, and Raoul Walsh) and for autobiographical portraitists and historians of style (such as Terence Davies and Sofia Coppola), the lives of others are naturally linked to first-person observations and modes of expression. —

Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 19 Mar. 2024 The lobby of the U.S. headquarters of UBS, in Manhattan, is adorned this spring with dozens of original paintings by Lucian Freud, the English portraitist. —

Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2024 See all Example Sentences for portraitist

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