Please feel free to look around, but bear with us awhile as we continue rebuilding the site from the ground up.   There is  less content posted now than you'll find in just a few short weeks.  

  • If you're a  prospective portrait buyer  (or simply want to learn more) please take a moment to complete our short survey to help us better understand your needs and preferences .  

  • Professional portrait artists  should complete this short form to be included in the Portrait Artist Directory (FREE and soon to be the world's largest database of professional portrait painters).

We'll be offering a wealth of new features and benefits to both the prospective portrait buyer and the
many fine portrait artists who create these exquisite commissioned works of art.   The powerful (but always user-friendly) technology being developed exclusively for PortraitArtists.com will include:

  • The most comprehensive Directory of Professional Portrait Artists on the web, and
  • Our patent-pending iSEEtm Portrait-Search engine  featuring: 
    1. Artist filtering by style, medium, subject, price range and more;
    2. Representative works of every artist matching the buyer's selection
      criteria are displayed for review;
    3. Mark your 'favorite' artists with a single click;
    4. Open a dialogue with the artist(s) you selected to receive a quotation,
      clarify terms and procedures, to make any special requests to make
      your final selection and commission the artist to create your portrait).  
      You can even securely upload photos of the portrait subject right then
      and there to expedite the process.

    There lots more to tell .  So please stay tuned!

  Yours sincerely,

Lloyd Merriam
 Founder and Director

 PortraitArtists.com

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 Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

- Simonides (556 BC - 468 BC)