But he was considered a portrait painter in his time.
The man would have made a great subject for a portrait painter.
In 1769 he left his father and set up as a portrait painter.
As a portrait painter, he was successful at an early age.
This is a problem a lot of young portrait painters have.
When this ended, he set himself up first as a portrait painter.
Later in life he established a career as a portrait painter.
He was beginning to have an international reputation as a portrait painter.
Her son Philip, who had become a portrait painter, died in 1926.
He survived at first by being an art teacher and portrait painter.