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Answer for the clue "Painting of person ", 8 letters:
portrait

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a painting of a person's face a word picture of a person's appearance and character [syn: portrayal , portraiture ] any likeness of a person; "the photographer made excellent portraits" [syn: portrayal ]

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Portrait is an early (1968) compilation album manufactured for the European market containing most of Glen Campbell 's Country hits up to that point plus some album and single tracks.

Usage examples of portrait.

Bas-relief 8 Lions Frieze, Susa 9 Painted Head from Edessa 10 Cypriote Vase Decoration 11 Attic Grave Painting 12 Muse of Cortona 13 Odyssey Landscape 14 Amphore, Lower Italy 15 Ritual Scene, Palatine Wall painting 16 Portrait, Fayoum, Graf Collection 17 Chamber in Catacombs, with wall decorations 18 Catacomb Fresco, S.

In this rapid portrait of chivalry I have been urged to anticipate on the story of the crusades, at once an effect and a cause, of this memorable institution.

Family portraits, artsy shots of nude men and women, even several examples of family pets.

These are many of them portraits full of serious dignity and unspotted by the world of barocco with which Tabachetti was surrounded.

Given the language difficulties, it took a while for Tina Blau to convey her request that Meli and the python pose for a portrait.

Among other compliments and marks of homage the old man was presented with a golden plaque, on one side of which Sicard, who stood revealed as a master of the burin, had engraved his portrait with rare fidelity.

In a letter, written in the humoristic style in which she delighted, she gives us portraits of some of her comrades of that time.

Peeling clear of the wood, curling tighter and tighter, and finally crumbling into small bits with what must have been malignly silent suddenness, the portrait of Joseph Curwen had resigned forever its staring surveillance of the youth it so strangely resembled, and now lay scattered on the floor as a thin coating of fine blue-grey dust.

Lo Manto said, his eyes briefly looking past the boy toward a young couple in the rear of the restaurant, their backs to a framed portrait of the Bay of Naples, locked in a long, passionate kiss.

It had been miscatalogued in England and sold as an unidentified portrait of a young girl.

My brother and my sister both missed them, but they go back in the family portraits for three hundred years.

However much you may be mourned, your widow will like to have her weeds neatly made--the cook will send or come up to ask about dinner--the survivor will soon bear to look at your picture over the mantelpiece, which will presently be deposed from the place of honour, to make way for the portrait of the son who reigns.

Lot 13, when a second glance at the portrait had reinforced the feeling that under the layers of grime and overpaint lay buried treasure.

With no distraction from Wayne and Eddie she worked steadily without interruption, and by late afternoon most of the overpaint was removed, leaving the portrait almost ready to part with its discoloured varnish.

The Dutch were long at a loss what to make of this article, till it was discovered that a portrait of Cornelius de Wit, brother to the pensionary, painted by order of certain magistrates of Dort, and hung up in a chamber of the town-house, had given occasion to the complaint.