So you want to commission an oil painting? What's involved?

When you have found in the Kings Galleries Archive that painting you can't live without, you will probably need to confirm that your budget is in synchronization with your aspirations. This can easily be determined by pressing the "Quotation" Button at the bottom of each expanded view page and filling out the enquiry form that will appear there,we will get back to you with a price within 24hrs sometimes much sooner depending on the time of day you send it in. If, after receiving our quotation, you wish to go ahead and commission the painting, mail us back and we will make the appropriate financial arrangements through PayPal, credit card or check.

Its that simple! In a few weeks time you will have a beautiful oil painting to hang and bring color, glamour and sophistication to your home, office or business. Now sit back and await the admiring comments!
Please remember at all times that you are being quoted for an Oil Painting of the highest possible standards, our work can-not and should-not ever be compared to the inferior work created by large Chinese factories, our work is painted by world class artists within their specialty, nothing here is mass produced " we do not sell products, we sell Art "

Good portraits are not easy to do, and many online oil portrait companies don't capture the likeness and essence of the sitter from photographs alone. Most look sterile and clumsy; trying to fit an obviously modern face into a medium that relies so much upon the artist to interpret, transpose and execute is a difficult and costly task that most cannot succeed in accomplishing.

Kings Galleries, as you would expect, takes a somewhat different approach to this dilemma and creates truly original and beautiful heirlooms that also stand alone as pieces of fine art. Utilizing and matching the skills of several talented and insightful portrait painters, we seek to not only capture the essence of the subject, but also place the sitter into an appropriate and relevant time frame, scene and/or costume. Our goal is to deliver to you, the client, something of true classical beauty and value.

The client was also a connoisseur of early 15th century Italian art by artists such as Caravaggio, and wanted something in that style, if possible. After consultation with the client, a gifted amateur photographer, we asked him to send us a photo of him and his daughter in an appropriate pose.