Her errand in New York was to choose a portrait painter.
For the astonishing thing was to find a young man of this type studying to be a portrait painter instead of a bond salesman.
From that moment it was clear to me that he was a portrait painter.
Nor less worthy in the opinion of Vasari was one Tullio, or India il Vecchio, an able artist in fresco, a portrait painter, and a celebrated copyist.
Every tyro in art knows, it may be said, the eminence of Hans Holbein the Younger as a painter, and especially as a portrait painter.
He was left an orphan, with six brothers and sisters, and when only eighteen years of age quitted his native place, Luneville, and came to Paris as a portrait painter.
He was associated with the Sèvres factory, but his quality as a portrait painter is amply vindicated in the Wallace Collection.
Wilkie failed when he took it into his head that the Blind Fiddler and the Rent Day were unworthy of his powers, and challenged competition with Lawrence as a portrait painter.
James struck off the Mac from the beginning of his name, and set up as a portrait painter at Chester.
It is evident that a portrait painter, who was able only to represent faces and figures such as those which we pay money to see at fairs, would not, however spirited his execution might be, take rank among the highest artists.
You can see that a portrait painter has to cultivate the people who have portraits painted, can't you?
As soon as he was through his apprenticeship he set up as a portrait painter, and travelled over the mountains to Lexington, Kentucky, hoping to fare as well as Harding had.
What an infernal business is this of a portrait painter," Stuart cried, at last, his patience giving way.
In speaking of Sir Joshua as a portrait painter, Mr. Ruskin says: "Considered as a painter of individuality in the human form and mind, I think him the prince of portrait painters.
His highest fame is as a portrait painter, and as such he was a great genius.
He is not what is called an "intimate" portrait painter.
Of the life of Van der Helst, one of the most distinguished of the Dutch portrait painters, little is known, except that he resided constantly at Amsterdam, and was in good practice there as a portrait painter.
After studying abroad he returned to New York City in 1849 and began a successful career as a portrait painter.
He studied in School of Grandon, a portrait painter at Lyons, where he made rapid progress.
A native of New York, who studied art under Benjamin West at London and in January, 1771, advertised his profession as a portrait painter in the New York newspapers.
He removed to New York in 1851 and was a portrait painter, having painted many distinguished men.
Mrs. Cherry is a portrait painter, and in 1903 was much occupied in this art in Chicago and vicinity.
As we might expect, therefore, she was especially successful as a portrait painter, for she had a knack of catching her sitter's likeness with the bloom of nature yet fresh upon it.
She made an immediate success as a portrait painter, and from 1814 during fifty-two years her pictures were annually exhibited at the Academy with a few rare exceptions.
At his house Reynolds met the Commodore Keppel, whose kindness enabled him to see Italy, and it was the sojourn in that real home of art that brought Reynolds back to England a portrait painter of the first class.
Born in 1723 at Plympton in Devonshire, where his father was a school-master, he was apprenticed in London to Thomas Hudson, a portrait painter of the day and a Devon man too.
Jacques de Poindre, born in 1527, acquired a brilliant reputation as a portrait painter.
She learned a great deal from him, and became a portrait painter, dying some little time before her father, to his great grief.
Frontispiece (From Hampton Court) This portrait (note the Maltese crosses on the cloak) is a splendid example of Tintoretto's gifts as a portrait painter.
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