The phrase "acquire a portrait of" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to the act of obtaining or purchasing a portrait, typically of a person or subject.
Example: "The museum aims to acquire a portrait of the famous artist to enhance its collection."
Alternatives: "obtain a portrait of" or "procure a portrait of".
Mr. Lowry said that Kirk Varnedoe, the museum's chief curator of paintings and sculpture, first thought of a Roulin show in 1989, when the museum acquired a portrait of Roulin from 1888-89 thas has become a star of its permanent collection.
Recently, the museum acquired a portrait of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and the father of Charles Carroll of Homewood.
She is the author of Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution, Notorious Victoria: The Life of Victoria Woodhull, Uncensored and The Art of Acquiring: A Portrait of Etta and Claribel Cone.
Paul Eastwood, Stamford In 1845 John Snare, a Reading bookseller, acquired for £8 a portrait of Charles I undertaken shortly before he became king.
For example, some collectors strive to acquire a complete set of portraits of notable figures in either a narrow or a very broad field.
Once they acquired from a shipwreck a portrait of a young man who happened to be Gentle in his youth.
Mark Fecker of the French-based art dealers Didier Aaron acquired the drawing as a "portrait of an unknown man".
The Ebury Publishing imprint WH Allen, which has acquired the British rights to 41: A Portrait of My Father, is promising a "highly personal" and "unique and intimate" biography, due to be released on 11 November, as the American edition comes out.
The oil, 31.5 by 24.5 inches, was acquired by the art gallery 70 years ago as a portrait of an unknown subject and was only recently restored.
It is recorded that he remitted a portrait of Pope Paul V, a portrait of himself in prayer (shown above), and a set of Ceylonese and Indonesian daggers acquired in the Philippines, all preserved today in the Sendai City Museum.
