Lay Figure: Ajointed wooden figure, either quite small or life-size, that may be used as a substitute for the sitter. The figure is so made that the limbs can only be moved in the same way as an actual human figure. Popular 18th-century portrait-painters used them dressed in the clothes the sitter demanded and thus saved the clients many arduous hours sitting still.

 

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