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portrait
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An orientation in which the data is printed across the narrow side of the form. Contrast with landscape.


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She alludes to the earnestness of moral fables while her shrewd attention to detail acknowledges the provincial virtues embraced by early American portraitists.
Like one of her venerable portraitists, the great Sir Joshua Reynolds, she was an artist boxed in by the humdrum tastes of Britain's burgeoning 18th-century middle classes, who couldn't see that ``tragedies are concocted and irrelevant,'' whereas great comedy is ``serious business.
Now take a time machine forward to 1946: Dean Fausett's career as one of the foremost landscapists, portraitists, and muralists in American realism is well on its way.
 
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