Portrayist
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Portrayist is a noun meaning One who portrays or depicts.
Meaning
One who portrays or depicts.
Example Sentences
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.
[…] 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.
Word Forms
- portrayists
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include depictor, picturer, representationalist, portraitist, painter, repainter.
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