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
Opie was a British historical and portrait painter who portrayed many people, including British royals.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 26, 2024
His best friend at the time was Nelson Shanks, the Classical Realist portrait painter, with whom he visited museums throughout Europe.
From New York Times ● May 25, 2023
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
Once, when Reynolds at an Academy Dinner proposed the health of his rival as "the greatest landscape painter of the day," Wilson, who was present, exclaimed, "Yes, and the greatest portrait painter, too."
From English Painters with a chapter on American painters by S. R. Koehler