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The phrase "a portrait of one" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a representation or depiction of a single individual, often in a metaphorical sense.
Example: "The artist's latest work is a portrait of one, capturing the essence of solitude in a crowded world."
Alternatives: "a depiction of one" or "a representation of one".
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Set in the resonantly named town of Burnfield (how scorched was my valley), "subUrbia" is a portrait of one bleak night, both typical and eventful, on the sidewalk in front of the store, where a group of bored friends kill time for hours on end.
Then, once I read the synopsis I knew I craved to watch this film, a portrait of one man's struggle but also a commentary on issues currently affecting all of us, in this globalized world.
It's a portrait of one girl.
It's a portrait of one man's simultaneous ascent (to drug lord) and descent (into moral depravity).
It's a portrait of one part of my city, which is very complex, very electrifying.
This is a portrait of one of them, Jacky, who is a caique".
But that's exactly what the audience requires from a portrait of one of American cinema's true mavericks.
And a portrait of one man, freshly painted, more sympathetically than before (also Rylance's Cromwell is prettier than Holbein's).
(Ages 6 to 10) A portrait of one of the more unusual partnerships of the civil rights movement.
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She had just done her first work in months; this included a portrait of Clea Newman, one of Paul Newman's daughters.
A portrait of a one-time Harlem numbers man who subsidizes his Social Security checks by selling vegetables also digs into his neighborhood's previous lives as a Dutch farming settlement and, before that, a Lenape Indian village.
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