portrait

Example Sentences

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The portrait of Lily Allen from the cover of her recent hit album West End Girl has gone on display at the National Portrait Gallery in London.

From BBC

One of the posts I saw soon after the story’s publication was an Instagram portrait Maricela Cueva took when the two met a few years ago during a conference in Burbank.

From Los Angeles Times

They were a very old Dutch family: the portraits on the walls could have been a textbook of Holland’s history.

From Literature

He is famous for his vibrant, often sunny, depictions of Los Angeles swimming pools, portraits, and large-scale Yorkshire landscapes.

From BBC

The two biggest were poster-sized campaign portraits of the presidential contenders in this fall’s election, Judge Alton B. Parker and President Theodore Roosevelt, framed.

From Literature