Wikidata:WikiProject sum of all paintings/Portraits

This page describes how portraits (portrait paintings) are handled as part of the sum of all paintings. We currently have over 90.000 portrait paintings on Wikidata ^{(December 2022)}.

Genre

We use genre (P136) set to portrait (Q134307) (or a subclass) to indicate that a painting is a portrait. instance of (P31) shouldn't be used for this. Some subclasses of portrait (Q134307) are well established, others might be replaced in the future.

Pages with overview of paintings that are missing genre (P136) and might be a portrait

• Possible portraits based on SPARQL query
• Possible portraits based on machine learning

Depicts

Every portrait painting should contain at least two depicts (P180) statements and probably more. Possibilities:

• The person(s) depicted is known
• The portrait depicts a man (Q8441)/woman (Q467)/boy (Q3010)/girl (Q3031) etc.
• What the person is wearing
• Features of the person (like a beard (Q42804))

See also top portrait depicts. We currently have over 46.000 portrait paintings without depicts (P180)^{December 2022)}.

Main subject

Every portrait painting should have main subject (P921):

• If a single person is in the painting and the person is known it should be set to the item of the person
• If a single person is in the painting and the person is not know, it should be set to man (Q8441)/woman (Q467)/boy (Q3010)/{{Q|Q3031} etc. based on the description

Pages with overview of paintings that are missing main subject (P921):

• Portraits without main subject but do have depicts (P180)
• Portraits possible sitter matched based on label

See also top portrait main subjects. We currently have over 67.000 portrait paintings without main subject (P921)^{December 2022)}.