portraiture

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: por=trai=ture

CIDE DICTIONARY

portraiture, n. [F. portraiture.].

•  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."  [1913 Webster]

  "Divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our neighbors but the portraiture."  [1913 Webster]
•  Pictures, collectively; painting.  Chaucer.  [1913 Webster]
•  The art or practice of making portraits.  Walpole.  [1913 Webster]

portraiture, v. t. 

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

OXFORD DICTIONARY

portraiture, n.
1 the art of painting or taking portraits.
2 graphic description.
3 a portrait.

Etymology

ME f. OF (as PORTRAIT)

THESAURUS

portraiture

acrylic painting, alphabet, art, blueprint, cameo, catalog, cataloging, character, character sketch, charactering, characterization, chart, choreography, coloring, conventional representation, dance notation, delineation, demonstration, depiction, depictment, description, details, diagram, drama, drawing, encaustic cerography, encaustic painting, evocation, exemplification, figuration, finger painting, flower painting, fresco painting, genre painting, gouache, graphic account, grisaille, head, hieroglyphic, iconography, ideogram, illumination, illustration, image, imagery, imaging, impasto, impression, itemization, letter, limning, logogram, logograph, map, miniature, monochrome, mural painting, musical notation, notation, oil painting, painting, particularization, photograph, pictogram, picture, picturization, plan, portrait, portrayal, poster painting, prefigurement, presentment, printing, profile, projection, realization, rendering, rendition, representation, schema, score, script, silhouette, sketch, specification, syllabary, symbol, tablature, the brush, vignette, vivid description, wash, wash drawing, word painting, writing

ROGET THESAURUS

portraiture

Representation

N representation, representment, imitation, illustration, delineation, depictment, imagery, portraiture, iconography, design, designing, art, fine arts, painting, sculpture, engraving, photography, cinematography, radiography, autoradiography, fluorography, sciagraphy, personation, personification, impersonation, drama, picture, photo, photograph, daguerreotype, snapshot, X-ray photo, movie film, movie, tracing, scan, TV image, video image, image file, graphics, computer graphics, televideo, closed-circuit TV, copy, drawing, sketch, drought, draft, plot, chart, figure, scheme, image, likeness, icon, portrait, striking likeness, speaking likeness, very image, effigy, facsimile, figure, figure head, puppet, doll, figurine, aglet, manikin, lay- figure, model, mammet, marionette, fantoccini, waxwork, bust, statue, statuette, ideograph, hieroglyphic, anaglyph, kanji, diagram, monogram, map, plan, chart, ground plan, projection, elevation (plan), ichnography, cartography, atlas, outline, scheme, view, radiograph, scotograph, sciagraph, spectrogram, heliogram, represent, representing, representative, illustrative, represented, imitative, figurative, iconic, like, graphic, cinquecento quattrocento, trecento.

Painting

N painting, depicting, drawing, design, perspective, sciagraphy, skiagraphy, chiaroscuro, composition, treatment, historical painting, portrait painting, miniature painting, landscape painting, marine painting, still life, flower painting, scene painting, scenography, school, style, the grand style, high art, genre, portraiture, ornamental art, monochrome, polychrome, grisaille, pallet, palette, easel, brush, pencil, stump, black lead, charcoal, crayons, chalk, pastel, paint, watercolor, body color, oil color, oils, oil paint, varnish, priming, gouache, tempera, distemper, fresco, water glass, enamel, encaustic painting, mosaic, tapestry, photography, heliography, color photography, sun painting, graphics, computer graphics, picture, painting, piece, tableau, canvas, oil painting, fresco, cartoon, easel picture, cabinet picture, draught, draft, pencil drawing, water color drawing, etching, charcoal, pen-and-ink, sketch, outline, study, photograph, color photograph, black-and-white photograph, holograph, heliograph, daguerreotype, talbotype, calotype, heliotype, negative, positive, print, glossy print, matte print, enlargement, reduction, life-size print, instant photo, Polaroid photo, technicolor, Kodachrome, Ektachrome, Polaroid, portrait, whole length, full length, half length, kitcat, head, miniature, shade, silhouette, profile, landscape, seapiece, view, scene, prospect, panorama, diorama, still life, picture gallery, exhibit, studio, atelier, pinacotheca, painted, pictorial, graphic, picturesque, pencil, oil, in pencil, fecit, delineavit, mutum est pictura poema.