Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Portrait \Por"trait\, n. [F., originally p. p. of portraire to
   portray. See {Portray}.]
   1. The likeness of a person, painted, drawn, or engraved;
      commonly, a representation of the human face painted from
      real life.

            In portraits, the grace, and, we may add, the
            likeness, consists more in the general air than in
            the exact similitude of every feature. --Sir J.
                                                  Reynolds.

   Note: The meaning of the word is sometimes extended so as to
         include a photographic likeness.

   2. Hence, any graphic or vivid delineation or description of
      a person; as, a portrait in words.

   {Portrait bust}, or {Portrait statue}, a bust or statue
      representing the actual features or person of an
      individual; -- in distinction from an ideal bust or
      statue.