How to Use portraiture in a Sentence

portraiture

noun
  • The museum is exhibiting portraiture from the late 19th century.
  • Malcolm had to have known that this had the ring of self-portraiture.
    — The New Yorker, 17 June 2021
  • With my portraiture, my goal is to provoke this same feeling in those who view my art.
    — Staff Reports, Orange County Register, 7 Apr. 2017
  • Gump now does sign commissions and pet portraiture around town.
    — Kelsey Ables, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2022
  • The artist recently spoke with us about portraiture, sports, and more.
    — Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2020
  • Anything lost through the co-writing is mostly in the realm of portraiture.
    — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2025
  • That manner comes off, here, as only one of his many aspects of self-portraiture.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 26 Apr. 2022
  • This ruled out portraiture, which might otherwise have been a good source of income.
    — K.s.c., The Economist, 17 Sep. 2019
  • Seth was best known for his portraiture, while John for his engravings.
    — Annie Gentile, Courant Community, 21 June 2018
  • At the time, most modern artists ran from portraiture, but not Pearlstein.
    — Samantha Baskind, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Jan. 2023
  • But his paintings, large-scale abstracts and portraiture don’t always pay the bills.
    — Patricia Gannon, The Seattle Times, 16 Dec. 2017
  • The room is still decked with mafia literature and portraiture.
    — Livia Caligor, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Jan. 2025
  • But in most places and at most times, portraiture was available only to society’s elites.
    — Teju Cole, New York Times, 11 July 2017
  • Leadership and portraiture have long gone hand in hand in Western art.
    — Adrienne L. Childs, CNN, 7 Sep. 2022
  • Sometimes alone, other times in a group, these shots have the quality of portraiture.
    — Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 21 May 2021
  • Mitchell was one of the first vendors to sell art, specializing in portraiture.
    — Allana Smith, Freep.com, 13 July 2025
  • The fervor for Black portraiture peaked and plummeted in just four years.
    — Rachel Corbett, Vulture, 8 May 2025
  • Although there is not a lot of portraiture in this exhibit, there are some pictures of people and pets.
    — Mike Giuliano, Howard County Times, 15 Dec. 2017
  • The celebratory portraiture that has gummed up our galleries over the last five years is out, too.
    — Martha Schwendener, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Great portraiture happens when the people being photographed let down their guard enough to be seen in an honest light.
    — Hayden Carpenter, Outside Online, 15 Feb. 2019
  • Princess Kate and each of the young royals put their own artistic spin on family portraiture.
    — Terry Dickerson, NBC News, 17 Feb. 2025
  • After the shoot, Schaffer asked to keep the erotic portraiture.
    — Jane Borden, HWD, 7 Feb. 2017
  • This lovely piece of portraiture graces the arm of Derrick Rose, one of the finest athletes in the league.
    — Lansing Cai, CNN, 12 Feb. 2018
  • But the primary subject of the Met show is Neel’s portraiture.
    — Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 6 Apr. 2021
  • Lasser explained how, in this kind of portraiture, a figure might pose with the Bible or a scholarly tome.
    — Murray Whyte, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Aug. 2019
  • Wiley is known for his portraiture of Black men and women in the style of the Old Masters.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 19 May 2024
  • In the garden, Eisenman and her daughter, George, talked about portraiture.
    — Ian Parker, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2021
  • Among the show’s many examples of portraiture are works in which Black figures are shown alongside their white enslavers.
    — Karen Rosenberg, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Such pairings are one of Wilson’s strengths, his eye for portraiture matched by his skill for arranging images on the page.
    — Casey Cep, New Yorker, 9 May 2026
  • Instead, Kent valiantly wields the weapons of genre to make a compelling case for monster movies as portraiture of the highest art.
    — Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 17 Sep. 2024

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