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Portrait vs Portraiture - What's the difference?

portrait | portraiture |

As nouns the difference between portrait and portraiture

is that portrait is a painting or other picture of a person, especially the head and shoulders while portraiture is a portrait; a likeness; a painted resemblance; hence, that which is copied from some example or model.

As a verb portrait

is to portray; to draw.

As an adjective portrait

is representing the actual features of an individual; not ideal.

portrait

English

Alternative forms

* pourtraict (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A painting or other picture of a person, especially the head and shoulders.
  • * Sir J. Reynolds
    • In portraits , the grace, and, we may add, the likeness, consists more in the general air than in the exact similitude of every feature.
  • (figuratively) An accurate depiction of a person, a mood, etc.
    • The author painted a good portrait of urban life in New York in his latest book.
  • (computing, printing) A print orientation where the vertical sides are longer than the horizontal sides.

    • Related terms

    * portray

    Antonyms

    * (print mode or selection) landscape * (print mode or selection) profile

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To portray; to draw.
    • (Spenser)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Representing the actual features of an individual; not ideal.
    • a portrait''' bust; a '''portrait statue
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    portraiture

    English

    Noun

    (portraitures)
  • A portrait; a likeness; a painted resemblance; hence, that which is copied from some example or model.
  • * Shakespeare
    • For, by the image of my cause, I see / The portraiture of his.
  • The art of painting or photographing portraits.
  • A portrait (or portraits considered as a group).
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