| 单词 | to take his likeness |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto take his (her, etc.) likeness b. to take his (her, etc.) likeness and variants: to make a portrait of the specified person. Also in extended use. Cf. sense 2a. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to subject > make subject for painting [verb (intransitive)] > paint portrait to take his (her, etc.) likeness1711 1711 R. Molesworth in tr. F. Hotman Franco-Gallia 8 They got a Painter to his Bed's-side, who took his Likeness as well as 'twas possible at such a time. 1780 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting (ed. 2) IV. i. 1 At most he gave himself the trouble of taking the likeness of the person who sat to him. 1816 J. Austen Emma I. vi. 85 Did you ever have your likeness taken ? View more context for this quotation 1883 C. T. Brooks tr. J. P. F. Richter Invisible Lodge 66 I would not stand in the shoes of such a writer—one who creeps with his geographic mirror into every cul-de-sac in order to take its likeness. 1933 D. Thomas Let. Nov. (1987) 36 On receiving your photograph I went immediately to have my own likeness taken, there being no existent photograph of myself at this stage of decline. 1988 C. Harrod-Eagles Emperor vi. 100 To give licence to his staring at her, he got out his sketching book and took her likeness. 2006 Sunday Tel. (Nexis) 16 Apr. 22 The figures sometimes stare straight out from the page, as if to question the artist's right to take their likenesses. < as lemmas |
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