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portraiture

[pawr-tri-cher, pohr-] / ˈpɔr trɪ tʃər, ˈpoʊr- /




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Although he was uncomfortable with portraiture as a genre, he sat for practically anyone who asked him.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

How does its composition relate to the conventions of portraiture and genre painting?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

I photographed them as they are, and I also do that with my portraiture.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026

This is, to put it plainly, the stuff of well-considered emotional rawness, painstaking portraiture of our collective pasts.

From Salon ● May 12, 2026

They are the first harbingers of a tradition of portraiture that will continue unbroken until the collapse of the Roman Empire.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson


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