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portrayist

noun

Etymology

From portray + -ist.

  1. derived from portraire
  2. inherited from portray
  3. suffixed as portrayist — “portray + ist”

Definitions

  1. One who portrays or depicts.

    • […] marriage, as at present understood, may soon be reckoned among the number of obsolete institutions, and offer a field of research to the antiquary rather than to the portrayist of existing ideas and customs.
    • J. A. S. Monks, a portrayist of sheep and landscapes, is at Franklin Park, Boston, where two hundred sheep are placed at his disposal for sketching purposes.
    • In the same naïveté may be found the reason why the brothers Le Nain, in an age of stiffly classical composition, yet rank with Chardin as the greatest portrayists of French peasant-life.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA