portrait

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Related topics: Painting and drawing

por·trait1 /ˈpɔːtrɪt $ ˈpɔːr-/ noun [countableC]

AVPPICTUREa painting, drawing, or photograph of a person 人物画像；人物照片；肖像

a family portrait

全家福

portrait of

the artist’s portrait of his mother

画家给他母亲画的肖像

She’s been commissioned to paint Jackson’s portrait.

她已受托为杰克逊画肖像。

→4 See picture of 见图 PAINTING →5 see picture at 见图 painting

2 DESCRIBEa description or representation of something 〔对某事物的〕描绘，描述，表现

portrait of

a portrait of working life in America

对美国工作生活的描述

→ self-portrait

Examples from the Corpus

portrait• Note also the 1709 portrait of the miniaturist Karl Bruni by Jan Kupecký.• A portrait of the Virgin Mary looms behind him like a heavenly guardian.• They took formal portraits of the two leaders side by side in wingback chairs, smiling again.• Lunia was flattered at having her portrait painted by a gifted artist, but at first she felt rather intimidated by the experience.• A full-length portrait of the Queen hung on the wall.• The artist Hans Holbein was best known for painting portraits.• The making of personal portraits was part of this popular aesthetic, firmly embedded in commercial practices.• I found myself staring at the portrait, which was still propped on the cedar table.• Whether or not it can be seen as Kelman's self-portrait, it is the portrait of an artist.• West's elegy magnifies the warts and the amours, yet gives poetic poignancy to the portraits he draws here.

paint ... portrait• Bruch painted a psychological portrait of the obese that contrasted sharply with the image of the jolly fat person.• Bailey Doogan, for instance, the feminist painter who frequently paints unerring portraits of aging bodies, is an Etherton regular.• My grandmother painted frescoes and portraits.• Frans Hals had painted portraits of girls who could only be described as plain, but something lively and piquant redeemed them.• He is going to paint my portrait.• In 1881 Stanford visited the artist in Paris, asking him to paint a portrait of his wife.• But Jacques Lipchitz, who had recently married, decided to commission Modigliani to paint a wedding portrait.

portrait2 adjectiveadj

AVDif a piece of paper, a page, a photograph etc is in a portrait position, it is placed on a surface or hung on a wall with its longer edges at the sides 〔纸张、页面、照片等〕竖式的，纵向的 OPP landscape

Origin portrait

(1500-1600) French portraire; → PORTRAY

por·trait1 nounportrait2 adjectiveadj

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