Portrait
artistic representation of one or more persons
A portrait is a painting or a photograph of a person's face and its expression. The purpose of a portrait is to show the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person. For this reason, in photography, a portrait is actually not a snapshot, but a calm image of a person in a still position. A portrait normally shows a person looking directly at the painter or photographer.

An example of a portrait showing the painter Vincent van Gogh. It is a self-portrait because van Gogh is also the person who made the portrait.

Anthony van Dyck, Charles I in Three Positions, 1635-1636, shows profile, full face and three-quarter views, to send to Bernini in Rome, who was to sculpt a bust from this model.
GalleryEdit
Girl with a Pearl Earring, Vermeer's most famous painting.
William Orpen: Portrait of Gertrude Sanford, 1922
Sharaku: Actor Ichikawa Ebozo as Takemura Sadanoshin, 1794.
Butch Cassidy mug shot from the Wyoming Territorial Prison in 1894.
Other websitesEdit
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Portraits.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Selfportrait.
- National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution
- National Portrait Gallery London
- Painting The Century 101 Portrait Masterpieces
- Jeanne Ivy's Self-Portrait Page Archived 2002-03-10 at the Wayback Machine - What Artists Find When They Search in the Mirror.
- Portrait Detectives - Fun interactive introduction to the analysis of portraiture.
- Reportret - A gallery of reconstructions of missing portraits from world history.