Please can you name so portrait artists?

Question

I need famous portrait artists names that made portraiture what it is, such as picasso. Please give me a list?

Answer 1

Jean Ingres
Johannes Vermeer
Anthony van Dyck
Leonardo da Vinci
Mary Cassatt
Edgar Degas
Francisco de Goya
Hans Holbein the Younger
Rembrandt van Rijn
Peter Paul Rubens
Diego Velázquez
Thomas Gainsborough
Thomas Eakins
Gustave Courbet
Jacques-Louis David
John Singer Sargent

Not sure if I'd call Picasso a portrait artist...

Answer 2

Vermeer, Da Vinci, Brueghel, Anguissola, Botticelli, Durer, Van Dyck, Louis-David, Courbet, El Greco...the list can go on...