Sentence examples for greater portrait from inspiring English sources
Why a live-wire sketch of Wellington, darting all over his face to catch his weary realism, may be a far greater portrait than the painted doll that was the official commission.
A great portrait is proof against pathos.
He is also one of the first great portrait engravers.
"I think he's the greatest advertiser living," she scoffed, "not a great portrait painter".
The cover of this week's New York magazine features a great portrait of the actor Michael Douglas.
Holbein's great portrait of Henry VIII depicts not an obese man but a Big Man.
Gainsborough alone among the great portrait painters of the era also devoted serious attention to landscapes.
Bernini would lend animation to some of his great portrait busts by doing something similar.
Yeo may not be a great portrait painter, but Blair is surely a great, unfathomable portrait subject.
His great portrait of a tailor cutting cloth, for instance, is both a rare image of a 16th-century worker and a great portrait of male gentleness.
This great portrait of a Renaissance military man throbs with masculinity.
