portraiture

portraiture is a   Noun

Definition:

[1] A portrait; a likeness; a painted resemblance; hence, that which is copied from some example or model. For, by the image of my cause, I see The portraiture of his. Shak. Divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our neighbors but the portraiture. Bacon.

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

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

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