Meaning of portrayist | Babel Free

Definitions

One who portrays or depicts.

Examples

“[…] 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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