Why reproductions

A hand-painted copy behaves like a painting; a poster behaves like paper

The difference is surface: real oil catches raking light, throws small shadows off the brushwork, and changes through the day.

Most people have only ever seen these works flat, in books or on a screen, and are surprised by how much of the original effect lives in the paint itself. Rembrandt's faces work because the lit areas are built up thick and the shadows are thin and transparent. A hand-painted oil version reproduces that physically. Stand to one side and the highlights lift off the canvas, which is exactly what a printed version can never do.

Dark Old Master works need light on them and space around them. Hang one on a pale wall, not a dark feature wall, or the shadow passages disappear into the paint behind. Give it a picture light or a lamp below rather than a downlight directly overhead, which flattens everything. Go bigger than feels safe: a portrait under 60cm reads as a curio. For a standard three-seater sofa, 90 to 120cm wide is right.

How your painting is made

1. Choose the size and finishSeven standard sizes from 60 × 50cm to 200 × 135cm. Stretched ready to hang, rolled, or one of our frames. The size guide on every painting shows it to scale.
2. Painted to order, by handA university-trained artist paints your piece in oils on canvas, working from the original. Two to three weeks at the easel, then drying time.
3. Stretched, framed, checkedGallery-wrapped or framed in our workshop, then photographed and checked before it leaves.
4. Delivered free, Australia-wideMade to order in 21 to 28 days, then tracked to your door. Thirty-day money-back guarantee if it isn't what you hoped.