Por"trai*ture (?; 135), n. [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.

Divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our neighbors but the portraiture.

2. Pictures, collectively; painting. [Obs.] Chaucer.

3. The art or practice of making portraits. Walpole.

Por"trai*ture, v. t. To represent by a portrait, or as by a portrait; to portray. [R.] Shaftesbury.

• the art of painting or photographing portraits
  
• a portrait (or portraits considered as a group)