Difference between Portrait Painter and Portraitist

PORTRAIT PAINTER vs PORTRAITIST: NOUN

A painter or photographer who makes portraits
A portrait painter.
A maker of portraits; a portrait-painter; one who devotes his attention particularly to portraits, as a photographer.
A person who makes portraits, especially a painter or photographer.
A painter or drawer of portraits

Lithographer, Muralist, Ceramist, Abstractionist, Sculptor, Ceramicist, Miniaturist, Landscapist, Portraiture, Printmaker, Watercolourist, Watercolorist, Painter, Limner, Portraitist

Postimpressionist, Muralist, Photographer, Ceramist, Artist, Sculptor, Landscapist, Miniaturist, Watercolorist, Printmaker, Watercolourist, Portraiture, Painter, Limner, Portrait painter

Draftsman, Illustrator, Artist, Lithographer, Muralist, Abstractionist, Sculptor, Miniaturist, Landscapist, Portraiture, Printmaker, Watercolourist, Watercolorist, Painter, Portraitist

Lithographer, Abstractionist, Postimpressionist, Muralist, Photographer, Artist, Sculptor, Landscapist, Miniaturist, Watercolorist, Printmaker, Watercolourist, Portraiture, Painter, Portrait painter

Ireland, and as a distinguisned portrait painter of Irish personalities, including Cardinal Logue, etc.
Beside his work as a portrait painter, painting landscapes provides an interesting contrast.
He is considered a genre and portrait painter from the French school.
He is considered a genre and portrait painter from the German school.
English in particular, who valued his abilities as a portrait painter.
Richard began as a portrait painter at the age of twenty.
John Hanson Walker is considered a portrait painter from London.
Thomas Prichard Rossiter was a historical, religious, and portrait painter.
What was the nationality of portrait painter Millais?
An outstanding pastel portrait of Alexander Hamilton by the famous portrait painter, James Sharples.

Though the portraitist has drawn a powerful body, beneath the robes a certain slightness is suggested.
Aging French movie star Mirabelle Moncur hires bohemian London pet portraitist Kate Disney to paint her lion cub.
He is remembered today as the Romanticism portraitist of the British Regency.
More than a portraitist, however, Faulkner unveils interior complexity through external appearance, using both imagery and structure.
History, genre and landscape painter, portraitist, watercolorist and designer.
Though he remains a famous portraitist, Sargent was more than the sum of his society paintings.
Fritz Bergen studied at the Academy of Leipzig and worked in Munich as a portraitist.
Amorsolo was a portraitist and painter of rural Philippine landscapes.
Copley, an experienced portraitist, handled the task with panache.
The Scottish portraitist Henry Raeburn favored warm, dramatic illumination.