Fees and Procedures

Portraits in Oil
  • Head and Shoulders: $2000 and up, depending on complexity of background.
  • Three-Quarter Length: $6,000 and up, depending on complexity of background.
  • Full Length: $10,000 and up, unless additional expense is incurred by complicated background or still life objects.

Additional subjects, including animals, will be discounted by ten percent per subject. All portraits in oil will be painted in the agreed-upon format on either linen canvas or panels primed in accordance with archival recommendations.

Portrait Drawings
  • Head and Shoulders: $1000 and up, depending additional items including a complicated background.
  • Three-Quarter Length: $3,000 and up, depending on additions of any kind to the portrait.
  • Full Length: $4000 and up, depending on a landscape background or other complicated back or foregrounds.

All portrait drawings will be on acid-free paper, and the artist will advise on the correct matting and framing techniques in order to preserve the integrity of the paper.

The artist prefers to work from life, but understands that this is not always possible. If needed, the artist works with a professional photographer to capture the clearest likeness of the client possible. As well, the artist will take color notes from life, in order to insure correct skin, hair and eye color. Posthumous portraits will be considered, but acceptance of such a commission is predicated upon the quality of the references.

A fifty percent non-refundable deposit is required at the beginning of the commission. Upon completion, the balance is due when the painting is delivered. The artist will frame the painting in accordance with the client’s taste, and also existing framed artwork in the home, but the frame must complement the painting as well. Cost of framing is the responsibility of the client. Any travel expenses incurred by the artist and the photographer are the responsibility of the person who commissions a portrait. Every effort will be made to keep such expenses to a minimum, of course.

A commissioned portrait is a work of art unlike any other, with a unique relationship between the artist and client; every effort will be made to guarantee the likeness, but if this proves to be impossible after subsequent reworking, then the painting will be retained by the artist, and no additional payment will be required of the subject.

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