1. Gerry's ambition was to become a portrait painter.

2. The portrait painter had the power to massage the king's ego or to expose his flaws.

3. No less distinguished was his achievement as a portrait painter, his approach extending from the satirical to the deeply affectionate.

4. The problem for a portrait painter is the incisiveness of your observation - how deeply you choose to look into your subject.

5. He was renowned as a portrait painter.

6. He is a portrait painter.

7. Maksim Ksuta is a collagist, portrait painter and historiographer who graduated from the the Moscow State Aviation Technological University.

8. He was quite popular both as a portrait painter and an Orientalist.

9. George Romney, English portrait painter, died at Kendal in Cumbria.

10. Rembrandt was a portrait painter rather than a landscape painter.

11. He is eminent both as a sculptor and as a portrait painter.

12. He is an artist, just as surely as Rembrandt or any other first-rate portrait painter is one.

13. When this ended, he set himself up first as a portrait painter.

14. You say you are studying painting to become a portrait painter.

15. He is eminent both as a sculptor as a portrait painter.