PORTRAIT PAINTER (n.)

CONTERFEITER (nld.) · CONTREFAIT-MALER (deu.) · PEINTRE EN PORTRAIT (fra.) · PORTRAITISTE (fra.)
TERM USED AS TRANSLATIONS IN QUOTATION
PEINTRE EN PORTRAIT (fra.)
TERM USED IN EARLY TRANSLATIONS
PEINTRE EN PORTRAIT (fra.)

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To be a good Face-Painter, a degree of the Historical, and Poetical Genius is requisite, and a great Measure of the other Talents, and Advantages which a good History-Painter must possess : Nay some of them, particularly Colouring, he ought to have in greater Perfection than is absolutely necessary for a History-Painter.
‘Tis not enough to make a Tame, Insipid Resemblance of the Features, so that every body shall know who the Picture was intended for, nor even to make the Picture what is often said to be prodigious Like : (This is often done by the lowest of Face-Painters, but then ‘tis ever with the Air of a Fool, and an Unbred Person ;) A Portrait-Painter must understand Mankind, and enter into their Characters, and express their Minds as well as their Faces : And as his Business is chiefly with People of Condition, he must Think as a Gentleman, and a Man of Sense, or ‘twill be impossible to give Such their True, and Proper Resemblances.

But if a Painter of this kind is not oblig’d to take in such a compass of Knowledge as he that paints History, and that the Latter upon Some accounts is the nobler Employment, upon Others the Preference is due to Face-Painting ;

Le terme Portrait-Painter n'est pas directement traduit dans la version française de 1728, le traducteur ayant utlisé une forme impersonnelle. Il semble ne pas faire de différence en français entre "Face-Painter" et "Portrait-Painter", à la différence de l'anglais où les deux expressions sont employées en même temps.

face painter

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GENRES PICTURAUX → portrait
L’ARTISTE → qualités