portraiture
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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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