Definition of Portrait. Meaning of Portrait. Synonyms of Portrait

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Definition of Portrait

Portrait
Portrait 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.

Meaning of Portrait from wikipedia

- A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expression is predominant. The...
- Portrait may refer to: The Portrait (painting), a painting by René Magritte The Portrait (short story), a short story by Nikolai Gogol The Portrait (opera)...
- A Portrait may refer to: A Portrait (Voice of the Beehive album) A Portrait (John Denver album)...
- Portrait of a Man (Self Portrait?) (also Portrait of a Man in a Turban or Portrait of a Man in a Red Turban) is an oil painting by the Early Netherlandish...
- The Portrait of a Lady is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly and Macmillan's Magazine in 1880–81 and then as a...
- Natural light portraiture Portrait photography or portraiture in photography is a photograph of a person or group of people that captures the personality...
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is the first novel of Irish writer James Joyce. A Künstlerroman in a modernist style, it traces the religious and...
- The Arnolfini Portrait (or The Arnolfini Wedding, The Arnolfini Marriage, the Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife, or other titles) is a 1434 oil...
- National Portrait Gallery may refer to: National Portrait Gallery (Australia), in Canberra National Portrait Gallery, London, with satellite galleries...
- Self-portrait with dishevelled hair, Self portrait as a Young Man, and various other titles, is an early self-portrait by the Dutch artist Rembrandt,...
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