Word Meanings - SITTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. One who sits; esp., one who sits for a portrait or a bust. 2. A bird that sits or incubates.

PORTRAITURE
1. A portrait; a likeness; a painted resemblance; hence, that which is copied from some example or model. For, by the image of my cause, I see The portraiture of his. Shak. Divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of
PORTRAITIST
A portrait painter. Hamerton.
PORTRAIT
1. The likeness of a person, painted, drawn, or engraved; commonly, a representation of the human face painted from real life. In portraits, the grace, and, we may add, the likeness, consists more in the general air than in the exact similitude