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Donor portrait

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Donor Portrait: Ronald M. Druker LF ’76

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Heart Transplant Recipient Paints Portrait of Donor

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Why I Give to HUC-JIR: A Donor's Portrait

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TouchPlus+™ - Donor Wall Example (portrait)

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Organ donor portraits to be showcased in Rose Parade

A donor portrait or votive portrait is a portrait in a larger painting or other work showing the person who commissioned and paid for the image, or a member of his, or her, family. Donor portrait usually refers to the portrait or portraits of donors alone, as a section of a larger work, whereas votive portrait may often refer to a whole work of art intended as an ex-voto, including for example a Madonna, especially if the donor is very prominent. The terms are not used very consistently by art historians, as Angela Marisol Roberts points out, and may also be used for smaller religious subjects that were probably made to be retained by the commissioner rather than donated to a church.