portraitistn.
/ˈpɔːtrᵻtɪst/, /ˈpɔːtreɪtɪst/, U.S. /ˈpɔrtrədəst/ A painter, photographer, etc., who specializes or has particular skill in portraits. Also in extended use.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > photographer > [noun] > types in general
portraitist1857
street photographer1859
mugfaker1880
Kodaker1890
snap-shooter1890
snapshottist1891
snapshotter1899
telephotographer1899
snapper1910
documentarian1951
smudger1961
smudge1968
pictorialist1971
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to subject > [noun] > portrait-painting > portrait-painter
picture-drawer1587
limner1594
portrait painter1706
portraitist1857
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > statuary > [noun] > maker of statues
image-maker1500
statuary1542
statuist1620
statuarist1658
bust-maker1774
monumenter1890
portraitist1899
santero1931
1857 Times 18 June 6/5 There can scarce be fewer than 30 pictures of his at Manchester, displaying him as poet, as portraitist, and as landscape painter.
1875 tr. H. W. Vogel Chem. Light & Photogr. 149 Most persons conceive under the term photographer only a portraitist.
1899 Daily News 24 July 7/3 Houdon was the great portraitist in marble of the eighteenth century.
1937 H. K. Hennig (title) William Harrison Scarborough. Portraitist and miniaturist.
1977 V. S. Pritchett Gentle Barbarian viii. 119 Turgenev..is a portraitist who gives the surface of people.
1991 Outrage Feb. 44 I photographed actors as a portraitist for an American glossy magazine.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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