PORTRAITURE
portraiture
(noun) the activity of making portraits
portrayal, portraiture, portrait
(noun) a word picture of a person’s appearance and character
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
portraiture (countable and uncountable, plural portraitures)
A portrait; a likeness; a painted resemblance; hence, that which is copied from some example or model.
The art of painting or photographing portraits.
A portrait (or portraits considered as a group).
Source: Wiktionary
Por"trai*ture, n. Etym: [F. portraiture.]
1. A portrait; a likeness; a painted resemblance; hence, that which
is copied from some example or model.
For, by the image of my cause, I see The portraiture of his. Shak.
Divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our
neighbors but the portraiture. Bacon.
2. Pictures, collectively; painting. [Obs.] Chaucer.
3. The art or practice of making portraits. Walpole.
Por"trai*ture, v. t.
Definition: To represent by a portrait, or as by a portrait; to portray.
[R.] Shaftesbury.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition