portrait painter

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Yeo jokes: "If this was seen as treasonous, I could literally pay for it with my head, which would be an appropriate way for a portrait painter to die - to have their head removed!"

From BBC • May 14, 2024

He moved to London at 22 to attend art school with hopes of becoming a portrait painter like his grandfather.

From Reuters • May 23, 2023

His angular, spare, often brutalist urban landscapes are populated by elongated, distorted, fluid human characters drawn in the style of 19th-century Austrian portrait painter Egon Schiele.

From Slate • Mar. 4, 2023

Alvin Kofi, a portrait painter, said he knew people who had been treated in institutions like Springfield.

From New York Times • Nov. 17, 2022

For the astonishing thing was to find a young man of this type studying to be a portrait painter instead of a bond salesman.

From Immortal Youth A Study in the Will to Create by Price, Lucien