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

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

Flatter :: Flatter (v. t.) To portray too favorably; to give a too favorable idea of; as, his portrait flatters him..

Silhouette :: Silhouette (n.) A representation of the outlines of an object filled in with a black color; a profile portrait in black, such as a shadow appears to be..

Statued :: Statue (n.) A portrait.

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..

Natural :: Natural (a.) Resembling the object imitated; true to nature; according to the life; -- said of anything copied or imitated; as, a portrait is natural..

Portraitist :: Portraitist (n.) A portrait painter.

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

Portrait :: Portrait (n.) Hence, any graphic or vivid delineation or description of a person; as, a portrait in words..

Counterfeit :: Counterfeit (n.) That which resembles or is like another thing; a likeness; a portrait; a counterpart.

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

Lifelike :: Lifelike (a.) Like a living being; resembling life; giving an accurate representation; as, a lifelike portrait..

Three-quarter :: Three-quarter (a.) Measuring thirty inches by twenty-five; -- said of portraitures.

Limner :: Limner (n.) One who paints portraits.

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

Veronica :: Veronica (n.) A portrait or representation of the face of our Savior on the alleged handkerchief of Saint Veronica, preserved at Rome; hence, a representation of this portrait, or any similar representation of the face of the Savior. Formerly called also Vernacle, and Vernicle..

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

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..

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

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