Sentence examples for mere portrait from inspiring English sources

Stubbs became a master in arranging horses in a composition that moved beyond the mere portrait to acquire the status of high art.

No mere portrait, the work, 7 feet by nearly 10 feet, depicts Dr. Agnew in a regal stance, away from the operating table, while his assistants complete a mastectomy on an anesthetized woman.

"The mere portrait of 500 kites soaring in the winds, against a backdrop of beautiful mountain ranges, is enough to instill hope in even the most disheartened observer of the war-torn country," said a promotional release for the festival, organized by an American contractor for the United States Agency for International Development.

The key is to capture the person's spirit, to draw more than a mere portrait.

I think the animals came after I decided that doing mere self-portraits is quite boring.

Also like David, he considered his paintings of historical subjects his real art, and portraits mere money-earners, though now the reverse valuation seems obvious.

Tomalin's biography – always scrupulous about what we can know, what we can deduce and what is mere speculation – paints a portrait of a complex and exacting man.

They had got off to a rocky start three years previously when the apparently peeved emperor paid the artist a mere ducat for a portrait.

Professor Kennedy began by slyly referring to the almost two-inch wide black tape used to deface black faculty portraits as mere "slivers," immediately looking to diminish their much more important implication.

With a few twists of wire this is elevated from mere caricature to a psychological portrait.

An exception is George Fernandez's "Portrait of a Mere Illustrator," in which the artist's features and figure are faithfully rendered on his own image in a mirror.