Portrait

A portrait was an artistic depiction of an individual, usually featuring the face.
In 2013, Charlie Gibbs alluded to The Picture of Dorian Gray when he said that Turlough must have had a "portrait in the attic" as he had not aged since 1983. (AUDIO: Eldrad Must Die!)
== Examples of portraits ==
The Collection of Necessary Secrets had a Leonardo da Vinci portrait of John the Baptist with hidden messages. (PROSE: Christmas on a Rational Planet)
Johann Illes only ever made one portrait, which was of the Unique Lady. When the Unique Lady heard rumours of him painting a portrait of Arabella Horsley, making his portrait of her not unique, she had him killed. (PROSE: The Last Dodo)
The Tenth Doctor visited the National Portrait Gallery and saw a painting of T.S. Eliot there. It was signed by M. Silligton in 1940. The Doctor supposed that it was the same M. Sillington that he met at Gallows Gate Road. (PROSE: Number 1, Gallows Gate Road)
Upon death, a Gråttite's body would be buried in a graveyard and their portrait hung in the Whispering Gallery. The portrait would have the Gråttite's last stream of consciousness embedded within it. (COMIC: The Whispering Gallery)
In 1665, Johanssen Whalley made a portrait of James, 3rd Earl of Marchwood, with his children Joseph and Elizabeth. (TV: The Eternity Trap)
Lady Josephine commissioned a portrait of herself. The Artificers of Wrall painted it using animae particles, resulting the portrait being sentient, coming to be known as Josie Day. (COMIC: A Matter of Life and Death)
=== Portraits of the Doctor ===
The Sixth Doctor possessed portraits of himself by Michelangelo and Vincent van Gogh. (COMIC: Changes)
The Doctor commissioned Andy Warhol to paint a portrait of all his first eleven incarnations. In the summer of 1966, every Thursday, eleven incarnations would visit Warhol. (PROSE: The War of Art) In place of the War Doctor, however, there was a silhouette. The Eleventh Doctor did not know where to hang the finished artwork in the TARDIS. (COMIC: The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who)
=== Portraits of the Doctor's companions ===
The Doctor kept a portrait of his granddaughter in his house in Wales. (COMIC: A Matter of Life and Death)
Thomas Gainsborough painted a portrait of Ace that would hang in Windsor Castle in 1988. She saw it there before she had posed for it. (TV: Silver Nemesis)
A portrait of Clara Oswald was found in the Twelfth Doctor's Confession dial. (TV: Heaven Sent)
Category:Arts
Category:Painting
Category:Art from the real world