Portraiture is an art genre that is traceable to pre-historic times. The main purpose of portraiture is to capture the likeness of the subject. However, it captures more than just likeness. Through realistic, expressive, or symbolic means, portraiture shows the power, prestige, wealth, virtue, mood and other notable qualities of the subject. All these come together to form a visual statement of the subject’s personality. In doing this, portraits have indirectly recorded historical information ...