portrayee

English

Etymology

From portray +‎ -ee.

Noun

portrayee (plural portrayees)

1. (rare) One who is portrayed.
   • 1991, Richard Saul Wurman, Florence/Venice/Milan Access, HarperPerennial, →ISBN, page 104:

     […] portrayees include everyone from Francesco Hayez to Carlo Carra.

   • 1992 fall, Braj B. Kachru, “Introduction”, in Studies in the Linguistic Sciences, volume 22, number 2, page 4:

     The technique of the self-portrait should dominate, and again, not in the Who-is-Who style, with an enumeration of degrees, awards, and publications, but rather as an intellectual history of the portrayee: e.g., How did you come to linguistics — To which method or ‘school’ of linguistics — Your development before and at the U. of I. — The reception of your field among students and disciplines… and whatever else seems relevant to you.

   • 2001, Thomas Lütkemeier, Chez Soi – The Aesthetic Self in Arthur Schopenhauer, Walter Pater and T. S. Eliot: A Study in the Aesthetic Theories of Schopenhauer, Pater and Eliot, with Special Regard to Notions of Selfhood, Time and Influence, Königshausen & Neumann, →ISBN, page 282:

     In our opinion Meisel quite rightly puts these circumstances down to Eliot’s disability to recognise the advantages and the possibilities which are inherent in his position as a latecomer, quite in contrast to Pater, who made this the virtue of several of his portrayees and most of all of himself, silently taking up the privileged position at the end of the line.

   • 2006, Daniel Cohnitz, Marcus Rossberg, Nelson Goodman, Routledge, published 2014, →ISBN:

     A sculptor who portrays a person, however, is faced with the same difficulties as the painter in picking out certain properties of the portrayee.

   • 2008, Maghiel van Crevel, “Acknowledgments”, in Chinese Poetry in Times of Mind, Mayhem and Money, Brill, →ISBN, page xii:

     I thank the photographers whose work enlivens this book and their portrayees, as well as the authors and editors of the publications in which I encountered them, for permission to include the images in question.

   • 2015, Richard David Kennedy, The Encuentro (A Children’s Story For Adults), book two, [Lulu.com], →ISBN, page 39:

     A week to the day after the now infamous group therapy session, the entire cast was again ready to assemble and get back to work, although a few of the portrayees still wore the marks of that “polemicise”.

   • 2022, Laura Stagno, “Ambrogio Spinola in Genoese Art”, in Silvia Mostaccio, Bernardo J. García García, Luca Lo Basso, editors, Ambrogio Spinola between Genoa, Flanders, and Spain, Leuven University Press, →ISBN, part III (Memory Construction and Appropriation of Ambrogio Spinola’s Images), pages 276–277:

     Van Dyck’s paintings, then, were executed either on the basis of existing iconography; or, if made in the presence of the portrayee, necessarily in Flanders, in the last months of 1627, when the general’s and the artist’s life trajectories briefly intersected there.