Thank you to the Academy of Realist Art Boston for sponsoring this category.

The Art Renewal Center is proud to present the winners and finalists of Portraiture in the 15^th International ARC Salon Competition. This important genre first thrived 5,000 years ago in ancient Egypt. Since then it has always served as more then just a visual record and has been used to demonstrate power, importance, virtue, beauty, wealth or taste; but most importantly, portraits are intended to capture the soul of the sitter.