Portrait art

A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face is always predominant. In arts, a portrait may be represented as half body and even full body. If the subject in full body better represents personality and mood, this type of presentation may be chosen. The intent is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person. For this reason, in photography a portrait is generally not a snapshot, but a composed image of a person in a still position. A portrait often shows a person looking directly at the painter or photo

thumb|Vincent van Gogh, Self-portrait without beard, end September 1889, (F 525), Oil on canvas, 40 × 31 cm., Private collection. This may have been Van Gogh's last self-portrait. Given as a birthday gift to his mother. thumb|Self-portrait by Judith Leyster, a [[Dutch Golden Age painter, mostly of genre subjects. NGA, 1630. In reality, she probably did not wear expensive clothes like these while painting.]]

genre of painting; field of work for painters

thumb|The Smoker, Joos van Craesbeeck

portrait in a larger work showing the person who commissioned and paid for the image

thumb|The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries (1812), exhibiting the hand-in-waistcoat gesture

painting genre

art collection of Paolo Giovio existed in Como

portraiture prize

art work that shows the subject on horseback

Image in manuscript illumination showing the author handing over the writing

art exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, London

portrait executed in the subject's usual environment