A classical portrait, from a single photograph.
One photograph is enough. The studio prepares three painterly proofs in the registers of classical oil portraiture — Sargent's chiaroscuro, a soft tonal study, a brighter impressionist take — and finishes the one you choose on heavyweight gallery canvas.
Commission this portrait →UV-relief canvas from $119 · Free US shipping · 30-day returns
Drawn from one photograph
No sittings, no studio appointments. Send a single photograph — daylight is best, but the studio can work with what you have. The pipeline reads face shape, eye and skin tone, hair, the angle of the head, then composes a portrait from those constants.
In the manner of the masters
Sargent for the warmth and the loose brushwork. Vermeer for the still light. Lucian Freud for the closer, harder modern read. Pick the painterly register that fits the photograph, and the studio polishes a proof in that register.
A real painting, not a print of one
Finished on 380 g/m² acid-free cotton with archival UV pigment. Raised UV-relief brushwork adds physical impasto — close to it reads like an oil painting at touch range.
Examples from the studio
Common questions
›How does Canvasly paint a self portrait from a single photograph?
›Can I commission a self portrait in the style of Sargent or another painter?
›Will the portrait actually look like me?
›How much does a custom self portrait painting cost?
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Start your portrait →Three minutes to first proofs · Usually delivered within 15 business days of approval