portraiture

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Martins' work triumphed in the Portraiture category of the Professional competition.

From BBC • Apr. 13, 2023

The sort of person depicted in the National Portrait Gallery’s “The Outwin 2022: American Portraiture Today” is quite different from those typically represented in such institutions.

From Washington Post • May 12, 2022

“Watergate: Portraiture and Intrigue” spotlights the June 17, 1972, break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters, which led to Nixon’s resignation two years later.

From Washington Times • Mar. 7, 2022

Portraiture as practice, tattooers say, is unique from other forms of tattooing — not necessarily more difficult, just different.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 13, 2021

He carried all three portraits to the front counter and was about to stamp his embossed gold Hofacket’s Fine Portraiture seal on the lower left corner of each one when Granddaddy stopped him.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly