16 Verbs to Use for the Word portraiture

As one, therefore, that in worthy examples hold imitation better than invention, I have trod in their paths, but with an higher and wider step, and out of their tablets have drawn these larger portraitures of both sorts.

" The earliest known description of Washington was written in 1760 by his companion-in-arms and friend George Mercer, who attempted a "portraiture" in the following words: "He may be described as being as straight as an Indian, measuring six feet two inches in his stockings, and weighing 175 pounds when he took his seat in the House of Burgesses in 1759.

Vasari, for example, says that he avoided portraiture, and composed his faces by combining several individuals.

MEUNG, JEAN DE, mediæval French satirist; continued the unfinished "Roman de la Rose," in which he embodied a vivid satiric portraiture of contemporary life (1250-1305 ?).

We may have introduced him to the reader before, who likely enough has forgotten by this time our portraiture; so we shall say again, that the man was past thirty, tall, straight, well-made, even to the tapering of his well-formed limbs, as are the generality of the peasantry of that favored region.

Bessie, however, did believe it, from experience of resemblances where she had never intended direct portraiture; and when there was a somewhat earnest invitation to a garden party at the Gap, the Merrifields not only accepted for themselves, but persuaded as many of their neighbours as they could to countenance the poor girl.

We can therefore obtain a more lifelike portraiture by making extracts from her correspondence than by attempting the task in any other way.

From them may be obtained as perfect a portraiture of Lady Russell as can be desired.

Those which remain are rude, simple, uniform, without beauty or grace (except a certain serenity of facial expression which seems to pervade all their portraiture), but colossal and grand.

Who that has read Taine's graphic portraiture of the Elizabethan age can fail ever thereafter to see Shakespeare stand forth vividly?

As regards portraiture in general, the public may, without injury to Art or history, employ the painters who make the prettiest pictures of them; it doesn't matter to the future, if Mr. Jenkins, or even the Hon.

There is no attempt at representing the dress of half a century anterior to the painter's date, or at rendering accurate historic portraiture.

He refused to study portraiture, as Vasari tells us, and as we see so plainly in the statues of the Dukes at Florence.

and long, in after years Thy grandeur shonethy portraiture appears From history's pencil like a summer-night, With much of shadow, but with more of light!

But in art, as at the realistic end of the scale, we admit the portraiture, as a part of life, of the bestial, the cruel, the unforgiven, and feel it debasing, so must we at the idealistic end admit the representation of the celestial after human models, and feel it, even in Milton and in Dante, minimizing.

They were the last master-touches of Nature in working out that portraiture of weaned and sleepy loveliness.

16 Verbs to Use for the Word  portraiture