noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a picture/portrait gallery
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The picture gallery is full of treasures.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
fine
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Against the wall they saw a fine portrait of the young Dorian Gray, in all his wonderful youth and beauty.
photographic
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Himalayan Climber provides a comprehensive photographic portrait of his remarkable climbing career.
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The slots cut out for the photographic portraits were arched.
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Her photographic portraits , landscapes and scenes from everyday life are on show at Claire Burrus until the end of the month.
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Years later one of his photographic portraits was purchased by the museum.
royal
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As with all royal portraits , the choice of artist was approved by the monarch.
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He also wrote a scholarly illustrated history of the Royal College's portraits .
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family
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The recently restored interior contains furniture designed by William Kent, as well as a collection of Dutton family portraits .
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The details add much to his family portrait .
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Making family portraits and documenting weddings, she learned that photographers occupied a special place in the iconography of domesticity.
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Then, taking the other tack, Stettinius injects his family portraits with a sense of the strange.
painter
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The problem for a portrait painter is the incisiveness of your observation - how deeply you choose to look into your subject.
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She was actually foreshortening, as skilled portrait painters do.
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When this ended, he set himself up first as a portrait painter .
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No less distinguished was his achievement as a portrait painter , his approach extending from the satirical to the deeply affectionate.
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This is a problem a lot of young portrait painters have.
self
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Perhaps the gallery should add the exception Louisa's vital self portrait .
■ VERB
draw
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Now as then, Gielgud is acute, highly intelligent and concerned to help draw a full portrait .
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Dunn talked about her work, and a nurse asked Dunn to draw a portrait of her two daughters.
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These studies draw a quantitative portrait of ministers, legislators, bureaucrats, businessmen, trade union or party officials.
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The other photos on this fantasy book cover are of the people who allowed me to draw portraits of their lives.
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Not long ago I drew an affectionate portrait of my home town, Johannesburg, for Conde
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By putting these ideas together, we've drawn a portrait of the perfect playground.
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At our council meetings he always drew exquisite portraits of birds in the margins of the agenda paper.
hung
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Mrs Zamzam looked up to the wall of the room where there hung a framed portrait of a young man and woman.
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The furniture was old but tasteful, the walls hung with portraits .
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Above her on the wall hung a portrait in the manner of Laszlo showing a woman in her forties.
paint
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Sarah Stitt is possessed of the same huge eyes that she likes to paint in her huge-eyed portraits .
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Bruch painted a psychological portrait of the obese that contrasted sharply with the image of the jolly fat person.
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Frans Hals had painted portraits of girls who could only be described as plain, but something lively and piquant redeemed them.
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In 1881 Stanford visited the artist in Paris, asking him to paint a portrait of his wife.
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He is going to paint my portrait .
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Bailey Doogan, for instance, the feminist painter who frequently paints unerring portraits of aging bodies, is an Etherton regular.
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A figure drawing or painting is not a portrait , so an accurate facial likeness isn't essential.
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The life-size painting is a traditional portrait that depicts Drinkwater in a three-piece suit holding his trademark cowboy hat.
present
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He was presented to the Governor, Lord Plunkett, who presented him with a portrait of himself.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
full-length mirror/photograph/portrait etc
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Dropping the robe off her shoulders, Anne turned to a full-length mirror.
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He put his handkerchief in his pocket, and looked into the full-length mirror on the back of the guest room door.
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If a full-length mirror rests on the floor with the top tilting away from you it can make you look taller.
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On a platform nearby, another man jumps rope before a full-length mirror while a fourth pounds a speed bag.
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She caught sight of her own reflection in the full-length mirror behind the wardrobe door and gave a disgusted snort.
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She grimaced a little as she caught sight of her own reflection in the full-length mirror.
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She stared at herself for some time in the full-length mirror of the attic bedroom.
thumbnail sketch/portrait
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A thumbnail sketch of their functions and modes or organisation was also given.
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A very tightly written little thumbnail sketch.
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But written instructions in the blank spaces of books themselves do survive and so do tiny marginal thumbnail sketches to indicate subjects.
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This thumbnail sketch of a complicated web of negotiations says some unexpected things about Mr Major.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A full-length portrait of the Queen hung on the wall.
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The artist Hans Holbein was best known for painting portraits.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A portrait of the Virgin Mary looms behind him like a heavenly guardian.
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I found myself staring at the portrait , which was still propped on the cedar table.
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Lunia was flattered at having her portrait painted by a gifted artist, but at first she felt rather intimidated by the experience.
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Note also the 1709 portrait of the miniaturist Karl Bruni by Jan Kupecký.
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The making of personal portraits was part of this popular aesthetic, firmly embedded in commercial practices.
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They took formal portraits of the two leaders side by side in wingback chairs, smiling again.
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West's elegy magnifies the warts and the amours, yet gives poetic poignancy to the portraits he draws here.
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Whether or not it can be seen as Kelman's self-portrait, it is the portrait of an artist.