How to Use portraitist in a Sentence

portraitist

noun

• 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
• Byrne's leg bones feature in the background of a painting of Hunter by famed portraitist Joshua Reynolds.
  — Lianne Kolirin, CNN, 11 Jan. 2023
• By the age of 35, Jacques Tissot was one of the most sought-after society portraitists in Paris.
  — Tobias Grey, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2020
• 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
• 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
• The couple settled in Boston, where Lee became a portraitist and William a landscape painter.
  — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 7 July 2018
• 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
• But maybe the offending self-portraitist could give performance art a whirl?
  — Karen Brill, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Mar. 2017
• 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
• Matt was also a talented portraitist, but even that skill had its ominous side, warns Del Toro.
  — Michael Ordoña, latimes.com, 17 June 2019
• 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
• 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
• Dan Winters is a photographer and portraitist based in Austin, Texas.
  — New York Times, 12 Nov. 2021
• If a British portraitist is reverent he’s perceived to be doting.
  — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 9 Sep. 2022
• 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
• The younger woman played the piano and was also an accomplished portraitist, and the duo painted together.
  — Claudine Doury, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Oct. 2020
• 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
• Despite his large canvas, Rich is a gifted portraitist of his three main characters.
  — New York Times, 17 Jan. 2018
• 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
• 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
• The portraits, of Marten Soolmans and Oopjen Coppit, painted in 1634, capture a married couple able to afford to commission the greatest portraitist of the era, and at the peak of his power.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Nov. 2021
• Wiley is best-known as the official portraitist of President Barack Obama.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 21 July 2023
• 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
• Williamson’s portraitist, the British fashion illustrator David Downton, had emphasized the shadow of her cheekbones, the soft sweep of her bangs to one side, and the intensity of her smoky-eyed gaze.
  — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2019
• 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
• In the nearby Moonshot Studio, middle schoolers were making zoetropes inspired by the children’s book author and pigeon portraitist Mo Willems.
  — Michael Cooper, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2019
• An 1858 view of Paris by the French portraitist and showman is usually credited as the first successful aerial photograph.
  — Richard B. Woodward, WSJ, 27 Jan. 2020
• The early American portraitist is perhaps most well-known for his unfinished portrait of George Washington.
  — Lauren Daley, BostonGlobe.com, 15 May 2018
• 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
• Despite their disparate biographies, both women, Peyton points out, are, in a sense, portraitists: artists whose work is about capturing and interpreting the essence of other people.
  — Jenny Comita, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024