The Commissionaportrait Team
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Gregory Page-Turner
Chief Executive
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Sheila Tong
Senior Administrator |
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Philip Fryer
Accounts |
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Richard Matthews
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Art Agency - Commissionaportrait
Our agency combines many of the greatest portrait artists in the contemporary art world with the ultimate means to access them. Our innovative web site and experienced staff cater for all category of client. Whether you are a private individual, family, corporation, regiment, club or institution, we can swiftly supply the inspiration and solutions.
We can offer you an extraordinary range of talent in all styles and media including oil, pastel, watercolour, charcoal, pencil, terracotta and bronze. When a potential artist has been identified we then make the introductions. If a commission is agreed, we arrange the contract, monitor the portrait's progress and offer help with any issues that might arise.
Framing
In all cases we can offer advice on framing , all our artists work closely with framers and we have a close working relationship with top framers in central London, we have on hand a number of frames made especially for portraits. We can help and advice you select the perfect frame for any budget. A variety of options are available in a full range of quality and price whether it is an antique, custom made or pre-fabricated molding.
Nameplates
Name Plaques identify the sitter and/or artist. Our framers will guide you in selecting the appropriate wording, as well as select an appropriate plaque whether it is a simple brass plates or custom-made, hand-painted gilt wood plaque.
Restoration
Commission a Portrait's sister company artwarefineart deals in antique historical portraits, they carry a stock of over 150 paintings and drawings and sculptures. We work closely with a number of professional restoreres and can help you with any rstoration projects.
Collecting Antique Portraits
Commission a Portrait's sister company artwarefineart deals in antique historical portraits, they carry a stock of over 150 paintings and has a team of genealogists constantly researching family trees and descendents. We also offer a service that traces missing and lost portraits.
Replicas and Copies
We represents a number of replica specialists and copyists, who can create exact copies of any portrait, landscape or still life or indeed any painting in any medium.
Delivery
We work with fully-insured professional Fine Art movers and shippers. This includes custom crating, overnight or hand delivery.
"Thanks to this ingenious website, you can now wow your beloved by commissioning an original portrait" - Sunday Times, Nov. 2001
"The spread of artists is so impressive that...you are likely to be only a stone's throw away from a portraitist." - Art Review, Sept. 2001
"The whole buying experience looks to be so pleasurable that you probably wonšt even notice you have done it before it is all over" - Art Review, Sept. 2001
"Examples of pretty well every option to be found in new and recent portraiture" - Livewire magazine, Oct. 2001
"With such easy-to-use tools, portraiture can only become more accessible and more popular" - Livewire magazine, Oct. 2001
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