portraitists
Artists depicting people
Portraitists are artists who specialize in portraits—paintings, photographs, or other depictions of specific individuals.
The term usually implies someone who makes portraits professionally or as their primary artistic focus: Court portraitists captured the likenesses of royalty and nobility.
She was among the finest portraitists of her generation.
Those who apply pigment
- artistsMakers of creative works
- studiosCreative production spaces
- commissionsPayments for services rendered
- canvasesStretched fabric for painting
brushwork · sittings · easels · likeness · rendering · oils · pastels · miniaturists
Temporary caretakers for dependents
- modelsScaled representations or fashion workers
- patronsRegular supporters or customers
- commissionersOfficials heading regulatory bodies
- facesFront of heads
expressions · poses · likenesses · features · countenances · physiognomy · character · personalities
Those who take pictures
- headshotsProfessional face photographs
- studiosCreative production spaces
- lightingArt of illuminating spaces
- posingAssuming an attitude
retouching · lenses · backdrops · sittings · clients · proofs · prints · digital
Payments for services rendered
- collectorsThose who systematically acquire
- exhibitionsPublic showings of objects
- galleriesSpaces for displaying art
- hyperrealismTheory of simulation dominance
expressionism · abstraction · mixed media · installations · conceptual · identity · representation · diversity
Artists retained by royalty
- RembrandtSeventeenth-century Dutch painter
- VelazquezSpanish Baroque portraitist
- ReynoldsSurname or foil brand
- SargentAmerican expatriate portraitist
Gainsborough · Holbein · aristocracy · nobility · royalty · Old Masters · patronage · dynasties
painters
Those who apply pigment
- artistsMakers of creative works
- studiosCreative production spaces
- commissionsPayments for services rendered
canvases · brushwork · sittings · easels · likeness · rendering · oils · pastels · miniaturists · academicians
sitters
Temporary caretakers for dependents
- modelsScaled representations or fashion workers
- patronsRegular supporters or customers
- commissionersOfficials heading regulatory bodies
faces · expressions · poses · likenesses · features · countenances · physiognomy · character · personalities · dignitaries
photographers
Those who take pictures
- headshotsProfessional face photographs
- studiosCreative production spaces
- lightingArt of illuminating spaces
posing · retouching · lenses · backdrops · sittings · clients · proofs · prints · digital · sessions
commissions
Payments for services rendered
- collectorsThose who systematically acquire
- exhibitionsPublic showings of objects
- galleriesSpaces for displaying art
hyperrealism · expressionism · abstraction · mixed media · installations · conceptual · identity · representation · diversity · selfhood
court painters
Artists retained by royalty
- RembrandtSeventeenth-century Dutch painter
- VelazquezSpanish Baroque portraitist
- ReynoldsSurname or foil brand
Gainsborough · Sargent · Holbein · aristocracy · nobility · royalty · Old Masters · patronage · dynasties · lineage
- artistsPablo Picasso, painter, artist, illustrators, Leonardo da Vinci
- creativesartist, artists, painter, painters, illustrators
- paintersBotticelli, Caravaggio, Cezanne, Da Vinci, Dali
- Women ArtistsFrida Kahlo, Georgia O'Keeffe, Grandma Moses, Annie Leibovitz
- preserverslife preserver, life jacket, life vest, buoy, life ring
portraitistsabstract artists
Creators rejecting realistic imagery
abstractionists · conceptual artists · abstract expressionists · minimalists