Commissions Blog

With a wealth of experience commissioning maritime paintings, Mall Galleries Art Consultants match you with some of the best marine artists in the country to help you realise your project. Maritime painting is a genre that depicts ships, or an element of seafaring, and the sea. The genre was particularly popular from the 17th -19th centuries, reflecting the increased impact...

Paul Wright RSMA was recently commissioned by Mall Galleries visitor David Murwill to paint HMS Blencathra. Mall Galleries caught up with both of them to discuss the amazing history of the ship, the process of commissioning maritime works, & the challenges of painting a vessel which no longer exists.

Learn about commissioning portraiture with Annabel Elton, Mall Galleries' Commissions Consultant.

Toby Ward talks us through his commissions for St-Martin-in-the-Fields, the Royal Opera House and Lincoln Cathedral.

Miriam Escofet AssocRP talks about the Still Lifes she painted using her client's collections of objects Fiddler's Hill Nest The owner of this painting lives in a farm in Wiltshire. He particularly admired one of my previous paintings on the theme of a bird’s nest and wanted something very similar, but very particularly depicting certain eggs and insects from his...