Wikidata:WikiProject sum of all paintings/Portraits of individuals

This page describes how to Portraits of individuals. The focus is on portraits of one person, but most principles also applies to group portraits.

Identify as portrait

We use genre (P136) set to portrait (Q134307) or self-portrait (Q192110) (or in some cases subclass of these) to identify portraits. Portrait is currently the most used genre for paintings. Still plenty of portraits haven't been identified yet. The possible portraits report and the old European art missing genre reports contain plenty of suggestions to add the missing genre.

Information about the sitter

Every portrait should have information about who is in the portrait. We do this by adding main subject (P921) and depicts (P180), see top portrait main subjects and top portrait depicts.

Known sitter

When the sitter is known, main subject (P921) should be added set to the sitter (we don't use model (P2634)). depicts (P180) should also be added and set to the sitter. Additional depicts (P180) should be added set to things like man (Q8441), girl (Q3031), etc. and to other things depicted in the painting, see top portrait depicts for suggestions.

The item about the sitter should have a depicted by (P1299) statement set. This a curated property (like image (P18)) and should generally contain one or a few statement, definitely not a long list of all items.

Unknown sitter

If the sitter is not known, main subject (P921) should be set to either man (Q8441), woman (Q467), boy (Q3010), girl (Q3031), etc. If the sitter has a name and you expect it to have an item (in the future), but you can't find it (or haven't created it), you can set main subject (P921) to unknown value Help qualified with object named as (P1932) containing the name. Depicts statement should be added too like with the known sitter.

Queries

• Wikidata:WikiProject sum of all paintings/Portraits without main subject
• Wikidata:WikiProject sum of all paintings/Portraits possible sitter
• Portraits that have main subject and depicts set to the same sitter and the sitter links back
• Portraits that have main subject and depicts set to the same sitter, but the sitter doesn't have depicted by
• Portrait with both main subject and depicts, but doesn't have a depicts statement like man or women (could make easy lists for these per gender)
• Portraits that have main subject set, but missing same depicts statement
• Portraits that have depicts set, but main subject is missing
• Portraits without main subject and without depicts
• Sitter without depicted by, but does have a portrait with same image where the sitter is depicted and is the main subject
• Sitter without having depicted by that have one portrait