1. portrait - Noun
2. portrait - Adjective
3. portrait - Verb
The likeness of a person, painted, drawn, or engraved; commonly, a representation of the human face painted from real life.
Hence, any graphic or vivid delineation or description of a person; as, a portrait in words.
To portray; to draw.
Source: Webster's dictionaryA man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend. John Singer Sargent
My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain. Helmut Newton
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. Oscar Wilde
It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait. Max Beerbohm
One is never satisfied with a portrait of a person that one knows. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe