What's the difference between painter and portraitist?
Painter
Definition:
(n.) A rope at the bow of a boat, used to fasten it to anything.
(n.) The panther, or puma.
(n.) One whose occupation is to paint
(n.) One who covers buildings, ships, ironwork, and the like, with paint.
(n.) An artist who represents objects or scenes in color on a flat surface, as canvas, plaster, or the like.
Example Sentences:
(1) There was inadequate evidence to indicate that the higher risk of neuropsychiatric disability for painters might have been due to their occupational exposure to organic solvents.
(2) The art Kennard produced formed the basis of his career, as he recounted later: “I studied as a painter, but after the events of 1968 I began to look for a form of expression that could bring art and politics together to a wider audience … I found that photography wasn’t as burdened with similar art historical associations.” The result was his STOP montage series.
(3) Scott insisted he was an abstract painter in the way he felt Chardin was too: the pans and fruit were uninteresting in themselves; they were merely "the means of making a picture", which was a study in space, form and colour.
(4) These late paintings were deemed too perfect, not "badly done" enough, perhaps, and unchallenging: there was in them a marked absence of painterly lavishness.
(5) It was a diplomatic gift from Rubens to Charles I, when the painter was acting as an envoy for Philip IV, but nevertheless seems to me a painting for everyone.
(6) Closing volume in relation to vital capacity (CV%) was increased in car painters, suggestive of a "small airways disease" on Monday before work and tended to increase during a work week.
(7) Statistically significant increases were detected in the elution rates of male smoking automobile mechanics and male smoking painters compared to non-smoking controls.
(8) Dr Atl is better known for his work as a landscape painter who portrayed the horizons of the valley of Mexico.
(9) By the time he joined the Army, he had begun to believe he was "more deep and true as a poet than a painter".
(10) That in turn helps to bring an income stream to creative artists, painters and many others.” At the event, Corbyn also vowed to defend the BBC , suggesting it could be lost, and UK broadcasting could end up commercialised like in the US, due to cuts made by the Conservative government.
(11) Thoma, who was born in the Black Forest in southern Germany in 1839 and died in 1924, started out as a painter of clock faces and built a reputation for his depictions of rural life.
(12) His charge sheet includes numerous assaults (one against a waiter who served him the wrong dish of artichokes); jail time for libelling a fellow painter, Giovanni Baglione, by posting poems around Rome accusing him of plagiarism and calling him Giovanni Coglione (“Johnny Bollocks”); affray (a police report records Caravaggio’s response when asked how he came by a wound: “I wounded myself with my own sword when I fell down these stairs.
(13) What Norbert Lynton called "painterly lavishness" took over Scott's work.
(14) He quoted a Chinese proverb that to be a painter "you need the eye, the hand and the heart.
(15) Leafing anxiously through a folder thick with court documentation and witness statements, Painter said he wanted his children returned to his care so they could go back to their old school and the home in which they had grown up.
(16) Rubens is not a solitary source of painterly genius, but a gregarious master who never hid his own quotations of earlier art.
(17) Nikolai Astrup (1880-1928) is recognized as one of the most famous Norwegian painters of his time.
(18) Less well known is his collection of works by all the major artists of late 19th-century Britain, pre-Raphaelite painters such as John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Edward Burne-Jones, and later more academic painters, hugely popular and fabulously expensive in their day, including Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Albert Moore, Edward Poynter and the grandest of them all, Frederic Leighton.
(19) The son of an architect and older brother of broadcaster Clement Freud, the painter was married to Kathleen Garman for four years.
(20) "I saw Picasso, Matisse, but Paul Klee was the big influence," he told me, "because he was so steeped in Indian philosophy he had made himself almost an Indian painter."
Portraitist
Definition:
(n.) A portrait painter.
Example Sentences:
(1) Charles I had good reason to be grateful to his favourite portraitist who, in paintings such as a famous barn door-sized image of the king in armour on horseback, made his diminutive form into a towering emblem of wisdom and majesty.
(2) Finn, Merivel writes, "describes himself as a portraitist, but leads, I discover, an almost mendicant life in the shires of England, going on foot from one great house to another, begging to paint its inhabitants".
(3) Nobody painted brassica better or so often – these young men were to cabbage plots what RA portraitists were to kings – and their eyes scoured the landscape constantly for likely child goose-keepers and female cowherds.
(4) Merivel mocks the artist's poverty, but Finn knows that, in the end, he will find enough willing sitters to survive as a portraitist.
(5) The portraits he created tell a story, and the arrangement of the visual details are the pieces of his fiction.” Not so much a portraitist then, as a fantasist.
(6) The rogue self-portraitist has been described as a "tourist" in reports.