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
Glyn Philpot was a respected portrait painter in Britain in the early 20th century.
From New York Times • Jul. 27, 2022
Quitting his native town, where his father was an attorney, he reached London in 1751 and became a pupil of Hudson, the portrait painter.
From English Painters with a chapter on American painters by Koehler, S. R.
