Donor portrait

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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 (much more rarely) her, family.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Donor portrait”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Rogier van der Weyden, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.