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Portraiture   Listen
noun
Portraiture  n.  
1.
A portrait; a likeness; a painted resemblance; hence, that which is copied from some example or model. "For, by the image of my cause, I see The portraiture of his." "Divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our neighbors but the portraiture."
2.
Pictures, collectively; painting. (Obs.)
3.
The art or practice of making portraits.


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





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"Portraiture" Quotes from Famous Books



... written above. Our own impression of the nature of Edgar A. Poe, differs in some important degree, however, from that which has been generally conveyed in the notices of his death. Let us, before telling what we personally know of him, copy a graphic and highly finished portraiture, from the pen of Dr. Rufus W. Griswold, which appeared in a ...
— The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 1 (of 5) of the Raven Edition • Edgar Allan Poe
... says, "It was assuredly in his power to amuse the reader with a gallery of portraits and a collection of anecdotes." This reserve is particularly disappointing when a striking and original figure like Voltaire passes across the field, without an attempt to add one stroke to the portraiture of such ...
— Gibbon • James Cotter Morison
... such as the school of Sicyon, that sought to preserve the dignified traditions of the antique mode, or the realistic and impressionist schools, that aimed at reproducing actual life, or the elements of ideality in portraiture, or the artistic value of the epic form in an age so modern as theirs, or the proper subject-matter for the artist. Indeed, I fear that the inartistic temperaments of the day busied themselves also in matters of literature and art, for the accusations of plagiarism were ...
— Intentions • Oscar Wilde
... Leonberg, near to Solituede, where an arrangement had been made for her. Here a certain Herr Roos, a native of Wuertemberg, had made some acquaintance with her, in the winter 1797-8; to whom we owe the following sketch of portraiture. "She was a still-agreeable old person of sixty-five or six, whose lean wrinkly face still bespoke cheerfulness and kindliness. Her thin hair was all gray; she was of short" (middle) "stature, and ...
— The Life of Friedrich Schiller - Comprehending an Examination of His Works • Thomas Carlyle
... Ensal, but it needs a supplement. Charles Sumner's oratory and Mrs. Stowe's affecting portraiture of poor old Uncle Tom were not sufficient of themselves to move the nation. There had to be a John Brown and a Harper's Ferry. Preserve that paper and send it forth. The blood of Earl Bluefield and his followers ...
— The Hindered Hand - or, The Reign of the Repressionist • Sutton E. Griggs


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