Actually this shape is only about half as wide as a traditional portrait.
The traditional Roman Republican portrait was also problematic, since it had been so abused by Caesar.
What happened in the early Empire to the traditional Roman portrait?
This show of affection endows the picture with emotional qualities beyond those expected from a traditional dynastic portrait.
First appearing in 19th-century Poland, it was a cheaper alternative to traditional portraits popular among the higher strata of the society.
Her subjects don't look too unhappy to me, at least not the ones in Ms. Barney's latest photographs, which are close to traditional portraits.
She did traditional portraits; still life; traditional bucolic and rural scenes of Virginia and landscapes.
He became a painter of traditional portraits and landscapes with a substantial workrate.
And his head was of a very real and recognisable type, to judge by the traditional portraits and the personal descriptions.
His presentation, like Eric's, had none of the eternizing formality of traditional painted portraits.