He is shown here wearing his robes of state for this formal portrait.

The first advertisement appeared recently, with a formal portrait of a dignified family.

Instead I found a formal portrait of stiff people posing in ancient clothes.

Interspersed in the book are formal portraits of anonymous Americans.

Wedding parties from around the county come here to have their formal portraits taken.

After all, many of them were made as inexpensive keepsakes, not formal portraits.

She might just as well have been looking at three formal portraits.

The theory is, I believe, that these will have some historical significance and may lead to a formal portrait.

But for a formal portrait, fancy clothes are just the ticket.

This was not the English art of the formal portrait and the "fancy picture."