The phrase "a single portrait" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to one specific image or representation of a person, object, or scene.
Example: "The artist presented a single portrait of the queen, capturing her elegance and grace."
Alternatives: "one portrait" or "a lone portrait".
Until now there hasn't been a single portrait of a female former Rhodes scholar.
For Davies, one possibility is that this started as a single portrait.
A single portrait of two Korean women, Young Hee Kim and Gyung-Hwa Han (1992), hangs on one wall.
The filmmakers behind "Elemental" might have done better to commit to a single portrait and been more fearless about avoiding familiar oratory, but small steps are progress too.
He had been asked to do a single portrait, but over the course of three weeks, in a fit of inspiration, he had made at least fifteen.
It opens with a single portrait of a man dancing in an empty room, followed by a verse from Cole Porter's classic song Night and Day.
Using a program she wrote, Ms. Shor created a composite image in which randomly changing pixels from pictures of herself and about 40 relatives and friends combine into a shimmering, constantly shifting single portrait.
By 1964 Mick Jagger has become a bit of an animal in David Bailey's single portrait of him: lips parted, eyes dead or focused on some inner need, and his face enclosed in a fur hood – fox, very likely.
Boris Kustodiev's The Bolshevik, in which a giant carrying the red banner stomps through a snowbound city, nearly treading on the tiny workers below, contains not one single portrait of a human being.
A single fine portrait by Alice Neel, from a show at David Zwirner last spring, will hardly fill their needs.
He also found himself increasingly annoyed at tourists taking photographs of people who didn't own a single family portrait.
