How do you use Portraitist in a sentence? See 8 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like portrayer or painter, plus the exact meaning.
Portraitist in a sentence
Portraitist meaning
A painter or photographer who makes portraits.
Using Portraitist
- The main meaning on this page is: A painter or photographer who makes portraits.
- Useful related words include: portrait painter, portrayer, limner, painter.
- In the example corpus, portraitist often appears in combinations such as: portraitist of.
Context around Portraitist
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 3 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 8 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Portraitist
- In this selection, "portraitist" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, popular, official, great, living, shows and shown stand out and add context to how "portraitist" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include as a portraitist and most popular portraitist living in. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "portraitist" sits close to words such as aanholt, aardwolf and abati, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with portraitist
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Michelle Obama’s official portraitist shows the paintings she created in lockdown earlier this year. (15 words)
Filmmaker Annie Silverstein draws pictures of American lives with the sensitivity and insight of a portraitist. (16 words)
Strong, 6. Commentators differ in their response to Holbein's precision and objectivity as a portraitist. (16 words)
Bätschmann & Griener, 194. At the end of the 16th century, the miniature portraitist Nicholas Hilliard spoke in his treatise Arte of Limning of his debt to Holbein: "Holbein's manner have I ever imitated, and hold it for the best". (40 words)
In spite of being no longer labeled as émigrée, her relationship with the new regime was never totally harmonious, as might be expected given that she was a strong royalist and the former portraitist of Marie Antoinette. (37 words)
There, you can find work by portraitist Wyatt LeGrand and landscape painters David Seward and Justin Vining, as well as some sculptures and glass pieces. (25 words)
Example sentences (8)
And in the visual arts, the most popular portraitist living in St. Petersburg is a rural boy from Naryn.
Filmmaker Annie Silverstein draws pictures of American lives with the sensitivity and insight of a portraitist.
Michelle Obama’s official portraitist shows the paintings she created in lockdown earlier this year.
Sketches by the great portraitist, shown together for the first time, illuminate the contribution of his African-American muse, Thomas McKeller.
There, you can find work by portraitist Wyatt LeGrand and landscape painters David Seward and Justin Vining, as well as some sculptures and glass pieces.
Bätschmann & Griener, 194. At the end of the 16th century, the miniature portraitist Nicholas Hilliard spoke in his treatise Arte of Limning of his debt to Holbein: "Holbein's manner have I ever imitated, and hold it for the best".
In spite of being no longer labeled as émigrée, her relationship with the new regime was never totally harmonious, as might be expected given that she was a strong royalist and the former portraitist of Marie Antoinette.
Strong, 6. Commentators differ in their response to Holbein's precision and objectivity as a portraitist.
Common combinations with portraitist
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- portraitist of 2×