The announcement of the 2013 winner of the Archibald Prize led me to ask the question – what is portraiture? The artworks making up the finalists for that year seemed to differ quite dramatically, so what defines a portrait? Taking things back to basics, portraiture is any artistic representation of a person when the predominant features are the face and its expression, displaying a likeness, mood and personality of the subject. Whether the portrait is a painting, a photograp