Velasquez was so naturally a portraitist that apart from his actual portrait work, every figure composition he painted seems to consist merely of the portraits of a group of persons.
The extraordinary power of Velasquez as a portraitist was due to the same general cause operating in the case of Rembrandt, namely, extreme simplicity in design.
It is this average appearance that the portraitist tries to represent, emphasizing of course whatever good qualities may be indicated.
The first duty of the portraitist is to generalize the expression of his subject.
In all Europe there is no school of portraiture worth notice; the so-called portrait-painters are only likeness-makers, comparing with the true portraitist as a topographical draughtsman does with a landscape artist.
The portraitist deals with but a single figure, yet this, in combination with its scanty support, provokes this well-known comment.
The sure thing regarding the great portraitistis that he is a man of refinement.
A good portraitist in England one year exhibited at the Royal Academy a wonderfully painted peacock.
He met Rubens as a portraitist and took no odds of him.
The indurated critical judgment of the academic forces pronounced Bonnat a greater portraitistthan Velasquez, and Gérôme and his mock antiques and mock orientalism far superior to Fromentin and Chasseriau.
As a portraitist of his contemporaries Rodin is the unique master of character.
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