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
Phillips was more successful as a portrait painter: his likenesses are faithful, his pictures free from faults, and possess a pleasant tone, though as a colourist he does not occupy a high place.
From English Painters with a chapter on American painters by Koehler, S. R.
