portraitist

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The exhibition was among the last events marking the famous cult film’s 50th anniversary, and featured Rock’s famous photographs alongside pieces by pop star designer Michael Schmidt and digital portraitist Plasticgod.

From Los Angeles Times

The leading portraitist of the late 18th and early 19th century, he was renowned for his direct and powerful style.

From BBC

Two features define Rembrandt as a portraitist and serve as the measure of his greatness.

From The Wall Street Journal

In 1778 John Singleton Copley, the American émigré artist, fresh from a successful career as a colonial portraitist, turned to this scene.

From The Wall Street Journal

Calling him "one of the great portraitists of the 19th and 20th Centuries", it says the show will illustrate how many of his pictures "double up as icons or examples of the human condition".

From BBC