Reproduction paintings: UK suppliers

"bruce phipps" wrote | Any web sites in the UK that sell reproductions of famous | paintings?

The art galleries themselves are usually a good but expensive source of prints.

If you want a real painting, try the art colleges.

Remember to tell your insurers as having paintings which someone might think are really valuable thus encouraging them to break into your house, hold you and your family at gunpoint, and rape the cat, is a material fact.

Owain

Do you want a printed copy, or a painted copy? I know someone who does reproduction paintings if that is what you want. Let me know

Anna

~~ Anna Kettle, Suffolk, England |""""| ~ Lime plaster repairs / ^^ \ // Freehand modelling in lime: overmantels, pargeting etc |____|

I pity anyone who tries to rape our cat, she will have a lump out of your arm just for walking past her!

I've found a web site

A "proper" painted copy would be too expensive for me, but this site sells "canvas look" copies.

My other option is to do a "Mission Impossible" heist on the National Gallery...or put a pile of bricks in my front room*.

Bruce

• Reference to modern art exhibit at Tate gallery that shocked the nation in the 80's

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Quick college course, then DIY it

"raden" wrote | bruce phipps writes | >I am moving into a new house soon and fancy a Gainsborough | >over the fireplace, a Vermeer in the hall and a Rembrandt | >in the back bedroom. | >Picasso can go in the shed... | Quick college course, then DIY it

Change the children's names to Gainsborough, Vermeer and Rembrandt Phipps, and frame their felt-tip output. Then you can have Gainsborough, Vermeer and Rembrandt in every room in the house.

Don't worry about the name-calling and bullying they'll get at school - it's character-building.

Owain

I replied off group. Before anyone asks, no I'm not offering to do the heist :) Honest guv.

NT

Or Michelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo and Donatello.

Alchemy Mindworks used to do a CD with images of old masters on it, but when I looked they weren't offering it anymore. Instead they're now doing 'Indecent Images'which is described as "100 PRE-RAPHAELITE AND VICTORIAN-ERA IMAGES ON TWO CD-ROMS, REPRODUCED FROM THE ORIGINAL PAINTINGS". Presumably this offering gets more hits from Google. It looks like chubby Victorian semi-clad ladies, possibly not suitable for your purpose. Alchemy Mindworks may still have the old masters CD in stock if you contact them.