portrayist

English

Etymology

portray +‎ -ist

Noun

portrayist (plural portrayists)

1. One who portrays or depicts.
   • 1860, Mary Molesworth, The great experiment, volume 1, page 11:

     […] marriage, as at present understood, may soon be reckoned among the number of obsolete institutions, and offer a field of research to the antiquary rather than to the portrayist of existing ideas and customs.

   • 1893, The Quarterly Illustrator, volume 1, page 218:

     J. A. S. Monks, a portrayist of sheep and landscapes, is at Franklin Park, Boston, where two hundred sheep are placed at his disposal for sketching purposes.

   • 1911, Truth, volume 69, page 97:

     In the same naïveté may be found the reason why the brothers Le Nain, in an age of stiffly classical composition, yet rank with Chardin as the greatest portrayists of French peasant-life.