How To Use Portraitist In A Sentence

  • Charles Churchwood, the author of the new book, is the former design director of Vogue and Vanity Fair magazines, two of Ritts's most important showcases, and he has pieced together a portrait of the portraitist from stories told by nearly 100 of the photographer's friends, relatives, lovers, and business associates. David Schonauer: How Herb Ritts Created the Idols We Deserved
  • She relies on his taste in selecting her last portraitist. CONFESSIONS OF AN UGLY STEPSISTER
  • Ben Heine is a painter, illustrator, portraitist, caricaturist and photographer.
  • After a period in which Andy Warhol and others fascinatingly blurred photography and painting, many portraitists responded to this competition with so-called photorealism. The Guardian World News
  • Long before apps like Hipstamatic made anyone with a smartphone a self-styled retro portraitist, folk produced their artsy pics the old-fashioned way: with a Polaroid. Getting Up Guide: Gary Williams goes live at Caddie's
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  • Hans Holbein, a German painter, came to England in 1526 to make his fortune as a portraitist. Vanora Bennett - An interview with author
  • Cornishmen of a different stamp emerged: John Opie, the precocious portraitist and art theoretician, Richard Trevithick, wrestler and inventor of high-pressure steam traction, Humphry Davy, perfecter of the miner's safety lamp.
  • They had become impatient, and thought I must have become a portraitist who only did animals. SLEEP WHILE I SING
  • Other artists include expressionist portraitist Chantal Joffe, taxidermy specialist Polly Morgan, designer Pam Hogg pictured and Marcus Harvey, best-known for that tabloid-shocker painting of Myra Hindley, realised with children's hand-prints. This week's new events
  • Because his reputation as a portraitist was growing, it is not surprising that an incentive was necessary to lure him back to painting tapestry cartoons.
  • His brother Jean was known as a portraitist of great ability. Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders
  • Both of us had chosen Simmie Knox to paint our portraits: we liked Knox's lifelike style, and he would be the first African-American portraitist to have his work hang in the White House.
  • When sitting for his portrait, Oliver Cromwell ordered his portraitist, who wanted to pretty Cromwell up, to paint him ‘warts and all.’
  • He placed the blame on the type of lens usually employed by portraitists, recommending instead those used for landscape.
  • Her rapid rise from sweatshop worker to society portraitist is miraculous, not to say incredible.
  • They were primarily portraitists, but Thomas is now chiefly remembered for his dramatic Boadicea monument at Westminster Bridge, London, showing the fearsome warrior queen in her chariot.
  • Our greatest living portraitist, Lucian Freud, had a crack at it in 2001.
  • His work includes a fresco, Autumn, in a lunette of the Royal Academy's restaurant, and he also painted landscapes, interiors, and historical scenes, but he is best known as a portraitist.
  • He was no longer merely a society portraitist: his new work was recognized as a form of art in its own right. THE HARDIE INHERITANCE
  • Lillian Westcott Hale was more gifted and sought after as a portraitist than her husband, Philip.
  • He would go on to be knighted and become a celebrated portraitist, the darling of society and a very rich man.
  • He has pieced together a portrait of the portraitist from stories told by nearly 100 of the photographer's friends, relatives, lovers, and business associates. David Schonauer: How Herb Ritts Created the Idols We Deserved
  • Alice Neel, a great American portraitist who died in 1984, fits this description to a T. Edward Goldman: The Three Most Delicious Art Exhibitions Around the World This October
  • Hambling, the portraitist and sculptor, will join James Lloyd, a former winner of the BP Portrait award, painter Emrys Williams and Royal Academician Chris Orr, along with the writers Pullman and Willy Russell, in a sale of original images, all donated to promote the cause of drawing. Artists' self-portraits to raise money for drawing campaign
  • Like Rembrandt, his contemporaries among the Restoration portraitists favoured fanciful mythological guises.
  • Charles Churchwood, the author of the new book, is the former design director of Vogue and Vanity Fair magazines, two of Ritts's most important showcases, and he has pieced together a portrait of the portraitist from stories told by nearly 100 of the photographer's friends, relatives, lovers, and business associates. David Schonauer: How Herb Ritts Created the Idols We Deserved
  • As Anna, the arty portraitist, Julia Roberts starts slowly-she's the living embodiment of a certain style of knit-browed overconcern Hollywood stars fall back on, especially when forced to act with Brits-but she gathers a serious head of steam, and by the credits has delivered a fine performance. Upmarket, Tastefully Dirty And Deeply Uninvolving
  • When the Irish portraitist, Nathaniel Hone painted her in 1765, she was at the height of her popularity.
  • Though best-known for his fantastic novel " Lanark, " Mr. Gray worked for many years as a portraitist, and provides a typically distinctive and opinionated account of his life, times and acquaintances in words and pictures. Books to Furnish a Coffee Table

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