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Portraiture :: Portraiture (n.) A portrait; a likeness; a painted resemblance; hence, that which is copied from some example or model..

Portraiture :: Portraiture (v. t.) To represent by a portrait, or as by a portrait; to portray..

Whole-length :: Whole-length (n.) A portrait or statue representing the whole figure.

Statued :: Statue (n.) A portrait.

Felicity :: Felicity (n.) A pleasing faculty or accomplishment; as, felicity in painting portraits, or in writing or talking..

Likeness :: Likeness (n.) That which closely resembles; a portrait.

Sudary :: Sudarium (n.) The handkerchief upon which the Savior is said to have impressed his own portrait miraculously, when wiping his face with it, as he passed to the crucifixion..

Minette :: Minette (n.) The smallest of regular sizes of portrait photographs.

Hermes :: Hermes (n.) Originally, a boundary stone dedicated to Hermes as the god of boundaries, and therefore bearing in some cases a head, or head and shoulders, placed upon a quadrangular pillar whose height is that of the body belonging to the head, sometimes having feet or other parts of the body sculptured upon it. These figures, though often representing Hermes, were used for other divinities, and even, in later times, for portraits of human beings. Called also herma. See Terminal statue, under Ter

Pose :: Pose (v. t.) To place in an attitude or fixed position, for the sake of effect; to arrange the posture and drapery of (a person) in a studied manner; as, to pose a model for a picture; to pose a sitter for a portrait..

Portraiture :: Portraiture (n.) The art or practice of making portraits.

Portrait :: Portrait (n.) The likeness of a person, painted, drawn, or engraved; commonly, a representation of the human face painted from real life..

Retrait :: Retrait (n.) A portrait; a likeness.

Description :: Description (n.) A sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration of the essential qualities of a thing or species.

Background :: Background (n.) The space which is behind and subordinate to a portrait or group of figures.

Sitting :: Sitting (n.) The act or time of sitting, as to a portrait painter, photographer, etc..

Paint :: Paint (v. t.) To form in colors a figure or likeness of on a flat surface, as upon canvas; to represent by means of colors or hues; to exhibit in a tinted image; to portray with paints; as, to paint a portrait or a landscape..

Bishop''s Length :: Bishop's length () A canvas for a portrait measuring 58 by 94 inches. The half bishop measures 45 by 56.

Kitcat :: Kitcat (a.) Designating a canvas used for portraits of a peculiar size, viz., twenty-right or twenty-nine inches by thirty-six; -- so called because that size was adopted by Sir Godfrey Kneller for the portraits he painted of the members of the Kitcat Club..

Portraiture :: Portraiture (n.) Pictures, collectively; painting..

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