What is a Portrait?
A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expression is predominant. The purpose is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person. Throughout history portraits have been created for those deemed important enough, but in our current times portraits are everywhere and almost every person has at one point in time taken a portrait photo or had a portrait taken of them. Early portraits in history were only painted because cameras were not created yet. There are some examples of historical portraits below.