n. [ F., originally p. p. of portraire to portray. See Portray. ] 1. The likeness of a person, painted, drawn, or engraved; commonly, a representation of the human face painted from real life. [ 1913 Webster ]

In portraits, the grace, and, we may add, the likeness, consists more in the general air than in the exact similitude of every feature. Sir J. Reynolds. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The meaning of the word is sometimes extended so as to include a photographic likeness. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence, any graphic or vivid delineation or description of a person; as, a portrait in words. [ 1913 Webster ]

Portrait bust, or
Portrait statue, a bust or statue representing the actual features or person of an individual; -- in distinction from an ideal bust or statue. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To portray; to draw. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A portrait painter. [ R. ] Hamerton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. portraiture. ] 1. A portrait; a likeness; a painted resemblance; hence, that which is copied from some example or model. [ 1913 Webster ]

For, by the image of my cause, I see
The portraiture of his. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our neighbors but the portraiture. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Pictures, collectively; painting. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The art or practice of making portraits. Walpole. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To represent by a portrait, or as by a portrait; to portray. [ R. ] Shaftesbury. [ 1913 Webster ]