The phrase "a major portrait" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to an important or significant depiction of a person, scene, or subject, often in the context of art or literature.
Example: "The gallery featured a major portrait of the artist, capturing the essence of his creative spirit."
Alternatives: "a significant portrait" or "an important portrait".
He suggested Warhol paint a major portrait.
An apparently simple and straightforward picture of a boy in his school uniform has won the Swiss-Italian photographer Claudio Rasano a major portrait award.
Cooper has produced a graceful and judicious sketch, but it lacks the depth, detail and color that would turn it into a major portrait.
There will be vibrant colours and shapes and emotions, but curators openly admit that few of the works in a major portrait show at the National Portrait Gallery next year will actually look like portraits.
What distinguishes her pictures from those of other major portrait photographers is a refusal in some part to seek out and divulge anything about a particular subject that you might not already surmise or know.
An arresting image of a teenage girl on horseback with her trophy of a hunted dead buck was last night named winner of a major photographic portrait prize.
Drawing from a young age, he studied painting in Paris with Carolus-Duran, who became the subject of his first major portrait in 1879.
With partial funding from the Canadian magazine Saturday Night, Karsh traveled to England in 1943 for a strenuous two-month visit that yielded 42 major portraits, including those of prominent statesmen and members of the royal family.
Over the next eight years, first as a court painter in Mantua, then in Venice, Genoa and Rome, he copied Renaissance greats and also did numerous major portraits.
Besides major portraits like these, this savvy exhibition with its enlightening catalog is enhanced by smaller Whistler oils, drawings, pastel studies, costume designs, prints and watercolors, as well as a selection of fashion plates and costumes of the period.
In May 2005 the Los Angeles art collector and philanthropist Eli Broad changed his mind about "John," a major photorealist-style portrait by Chuck Close, after talking to Sotheby's experts.
