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A Portrait Chinois (Chinese portrait) is a metaphorical description of oneself by a comparison with various things or elements, a tree, a flower, a film, an historical character, a dish, whatever.
Portrait painting is a genre in painting, where the intent is to depict a human subject. The term 'portrait painting' can also describe the actual painted portrait.Portraitists may create their work by commission, for public and private persons, or they may be inspired by admiration or affection for the subject.Portraits are often important state and family records, as well as remembrances.t that time, England had no portrait painters of the first rank, and artists like Holbein were in demand by English patrons. His painting of Sir Thomas More (1527), his first important patron in England, has nearly the realism of a photograph.