| 单词 | portrait painting |
| 释义 | > as lemmasportrait painting portrait painting n. and adj. (a) n. the action of painting portraits (literal and figurative); (b) adj. (in form portrait-painting) designating a person who paints portraits. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to subject > [noun] > portrait-painting portrait1589 picture-drawing1625 vandyking1633 portrait painting1713 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to subject > [adjective] > portrait-painting portrait painting1842 1713 Spectator 6 Dec. 466 Instead of going to Italy, or elsewhere, one that designs for Portrait Painting ought to study in England. 1821 H. C. Robinson Diary 2 Dec. (1967) 71 I have finished Waverley... Its merit lies in portrait and scene painting. 1842 C. Dickens Let. 2 Apr. (1974) III. 179 My portrait-painting friend told me. 1991 Canad. Notes & Queries 45 15/1 Portrait painting had long since recovered from the threat of photography to emerge as a quite distinct, more dignified, and more expensive undertaking for people wishing to see their features immortalized. 2002 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 14 Apr. vii. 11/1 Sickles was bilked out of much of his money by a portrait-painting princess with the unlikely name of Lenott Parlaghy. < as lemmas |
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