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PortraitPortrait Por"trait, n. [F., originally p. p. of portraire to
portray. See Portray.]
1. The likeness of a person, painted, drawn, or engraved;
commonly, a representation of the human face painted from
real life.
In portraits, the grace, and, we may add, the
likeness, consists more in the general air than in
the exact similitude of every feature. --Sir J.
Reynolds.
Note: The meaning of the word is sometimes extended so as to
include a photographic likeness.
2. Hence, any graphic or vivid delineation or description of
a person; as, a portrait in words.
Portrait bust, or Portrait statue, a bust or statue
representing the actual features or person of an
individual; -- in distinction from an ideal bust or
statue. Portrait
Portrait Por"trait, v. t.
To portray; to draw. [Obs.] --Spenser.
Portrait bustPortrait Por"trait, n. [F., originally p. p. of portraire to
portray. See Portray.]
1. The likeness of a person, painted, drawn, or engraved;
commonly, a representation of the human face painted from
real life.
In portraits, the grace, and, we may add, the
likeness, consists more in the general air than in
the exact similitude of every feature. --Sir J.
Reynolds.
Note: The meaning of the word is sometimes extended so as to
include a photographic likeness.
2. Hence, any graphic or vivid delineation or description of
a person; as, a portrait in words.
Portrait bust, or Portrait statue, a bust or statue
representing the actual features or person of an
individual; -- in distinction from an ideal bust or
statue. Portrait statuePortrait Por"trait, n. [F., originally p. p. of portraire to
portray. See Portray.]
1. The likeness of a person, painted, drawn, or engraved;
commonly, a representation of the human face painted from
real life.
In portraits, the grace, and, we may add, the
likeness, consists more in the general air than in
the exact similitude of every feature. --Sir J.
Reynolds.
Note: The meaning of the word is sometimes extended so as to
include a photographic likeness.
2. Hence, any graphic or vivid delineation or description of
a person; as, a portrait in words.
Portrait bust, or Portrait statue, a bust or statue
representing the actual features or person of an
individual; -- in distinction from an ideal bust or
statue. Portraitist
Portraitist Por"trait*ist, n.
A portrait painter. [R.] --Hamerton.
Portraiture
Portraiture Por"trai*ture, v. t.
To represent by a portrait, or as by a portrait; to portray.
[R.] --Shaftesbury.
Portraiture
Portraiture Por"trai*ture (?; 135), n. [F. portraiture.]
1. A portrait; a likeness; a painted resemblance; hence, that
which is copied from some example or model.
For, by the image of my cause, I see The portraiture
of his. --Shak.
Divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern;
the love of our neighbors but the portraiture.
--Bacon.
2. Pictures, collectively; painting. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
3. The art or practice of making portraits. --Walpole.
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