Portrait

Rembrandt, Self Portrait (detail), 1659.

Claude Monet (The Reader) by Renoir, 1874.

Portrait in painting is an artistic representation of a person. It could also be a photograph, sculpture, or other medium.

Portraiture was ranked number two in the old academic tradition;

Charles Willson Peale, Self Portrait, 1822.

Abraham Lincoln by John Wesley Jarvis, 1861.

John Marshall by Henry Inman, 1832.

See also

Self-Portrait of Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, 1670-1673.

• Gilbert Stuart
• History Painters
• Gallery of Self-Portrait Paintings
• Famous Portrait Paintings
• Genre

Anthony van Dyck, Charles I King of England at the Hunt, 1635.

Konstantin Makovsky, Alexander II of Russia, 1881.

Rembrandt, The Artist's Mother, ca. 1629.