portraitist
noun
por·trait·ist ˈpȯr-trə-tist 
-ˌtrā-
: a maker of portraits
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web 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 Shabazz scoured the neighborhood looking for stories to tell and established a reputation as a street portraitist, someone who turned a compassionate eye to his community, not just to highlight style and personality but also character. Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 9 June 2022 Gunn is undoubtedly at his strongest as a poetic portraitist. Mark Ford, The New York Review of Books, 25 May 2022 Dan Winters is a photographer and portraitist based in Austin, Texas. New York Times, 12 Nov. 2021 Holbein was Henry VIII’s court painter, the best portraitist working in Tudor England, and a crony of Erasmus of Rotterdam and Thomas More to boot. Brian T. Allen, National Review, 24 Mar. 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 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 Born in Rochester, N.Y., in 1979, Lawson is a combination of portraitist and fabulist, documentarian and storyteller. New York Times, 29 July 2021 See More
Jessie Zinn, The New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2022 Shabazz scoured the neighborhood looking for stories to tell and established a reputation as a street portraitist, someone who turned a compassionate eye to his community, not just to highlight style and personality but also character. Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 9 June 2022 Gunn is undoubtedly at his strongest as a poetic portraitist. Mark Ford, The New York Review of Books, 25 May 2022 Dan Winters is a photographer and portraitist based in Austin, Texas. New York Times, 12 Nov. 2021 Holbein was Henry VIII’s court painter, the best portraitist working in Tudor England, and a crony of Erasmus of Rotterdam and Thomas More to boot. Brian T. Allen, National Review, 24 Mar. 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 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 Born in Rochester, N.Y., in 1979, Lawson is a combination of portraitist and fabulist, documentarian and storyteller. New York Times, 29 July 2021 See More Word History
First Known Use
1857, in the meaning defined above