Sentence examples for a great portrait from inspiring English sources

A great portrait is proof against pathos.

"I think he's the greatest advertiser living," she scoffed, "not a great portrait painter".

A great portrait is not an exercise in photographic realism, but a work of skill and imagination.

The cover of this week's New York magazine features a great portrait of the actor Michael Douglas.

Just as in a great portrait of a human, Velázquez allows the stag its inner self.

Despite her reputation as a great portrait photographer, she describes herself as "a hack".

I've enjoyed a lot of great portrait sessions with people I've long admired.

This great portrait of a Renaissance military man throbs with masculinity.

Immense, theatrical, Bowery became one of the great portrait subjects, a source of widespread fascination.

However, his great portrait of a baddie, "The Pardoner's Tale", is rich in psychological realism as the protagonist, a professional hypocrite and conman who is a kind of human devil, reveals himself as a result of his pride in his own evil intelligence.

Holbein's great portrait of Henry VIII depicts not an obese man but a Big Man.