Custom portraits
Your photo, painted by hand in oil. People, pets, houses, whole families.
From $189
Hand-painted oil portraits · Worldwide
Send a photo.
Get it back in oil.
A hand-painted oil portrait on archival canvas, made from a photograph you already love. You approve the composition before we paint, and it reaches you rolled, protected and signed.
From $189 · Painted in 3–5 weeks · Free worldwide shipping
1 free revisionand a mock-up approved before we paint
Free worldwide shipping
Rolled in a rigid tube, tracked and insured, at no extra cost.
You approve before we paint
A digital mock-up of your composition, at no charge.
3–5 weeks of painting
Including one free round of adjustments on the finished piece.
Certificate of authenticity
Signed, varnished and archived, with care instructions.
What we do
Commission a portrait, or take home an original
Two ways to own a real oil painting: one painted from your own photograph, or one of a small number of original works from the studio.
Original paintings
One-of-a-kind works from the studio, painted without a commission. Ready to ship.
From $690
Pets and memorials
The subjects people most often commission — and the ones oil paints best.
Same price table
The process
Four steps, and one of them is yours
No surprises, no guessing, and nothing charged until you have seen what you are getting.
Send your photo
Email it, or share a cloud link. Old, faded or damaged photos welcome — restoration is a small addition.
Approve the mock-up
We send a digital mock-up of the exact composition, crop and background. Nothing is painted until you say go.
Two progress photos
You see the painting twice while it is being made, so there are no surprises at the end.
Approve, varnish, ship
You approve the finished canvas, we varnish and sign it, and it leaves the studio rolled in a rigid tube.
Recent work
From the studio
Sizing
Not sure which size to order?
The most common regret in this trade is buying one size down. A 12 × 16 in canvas reads as a shelf picture on a wall; a 16 × 20 in reads as a portrait. If two sizes are close in price, take the larger one.
- 12 × 16 in — a desk or hallway picture, one face
- 16 × 20 in — the size most people choose
- 20 × 24 in — the first size that genuinely commands a wall
- 24 × 36 in and above — three or more faces, or a statement piece
Every painting arrives rolled. Hang it unframed for a modern look, or have it stretched and framed locally — we send the exact finished dimensions.
In their words
What people say
★★★★★
“I sent a photo from 1998 that was creased down the middle. They fixed it and I cannot find the crease in the painting at all.”
— Placeholder review, replace before launch
★★★★★
“The mock-up step is what sold me. Seeing the composition before anyone picked up a brush made the whole thing feel safe.”
— Placeholder review, replace before launch
★★★★★
“It arrived rolled in a tube, my local framer stretched it for a fraction of what shipping a framed canvas would have cost.”
— Placeholder review, replace before launch
Questions
Answered before you ask
Between $189 and $2,690 for a single canvas, depending on size and how many people or pets are in it. The full table is on the custom portraits page — nothing is hidden behind a quote form. A 16 × 20 in canvas with one subject is $389, which is the size most people choose.
Three to five weeks of painting time, plus three to five business days in transit. Rush delivery (three weeks, painting included) is available at checkout for $90. We are honest about one thing our industry is not: a genuine oil painting cannot be finished in three days. Oil needs to dry between layers, and the varnish needs to cure.
Yes — because you approve it before we paint. After you send your photo we produce a digital mock-up showing the exact composition, crop and background. Nothing is painted until you say go. When the painting is finished we send you a photograph of the real canvas, and you get one free round of adjustments. If the finished painting is genuinely off, we repaint it.
Any normal phone photo works, as long as it is sharp and the faces are clearly lit. Send it by email, or share a link to a cloud folder. If your photo is old, creased, faded or torn, say so — restoration or compositing two photos together is a $60–$70 addition, and it is one of the things we are best at.
We will tell you honestly, before you pay anything. A blurry or badly lit photo is the single most common reason a commission disappoints. Often we can work from a second photo, brighten it digitally, or merge two shots. If the source simply cannot support the size you want, we will recommend a smaller canvas rather than take your money.
Real oil paint, on real canvas, applied by hand with brushes. Not a digital filter, not a canvas print with a texture overlay. Every painting is signed, varnished with an archival gloss, and delivered with a numbered certificate of authenticity. You will be able to see the brushstrokes and the texture of the paint from the side — that is the test.
Start with the photo you already love
Send it over and you will have a fixed price and a delivery date, usually within a day. Nothing is charged until you approve both.