Cavalletto

Your painting, painted by hand in oil.

Send us a photo or a painting you love and a trained painter copies it onto canvas. Or choose one of the 18 paintings in our collection. From A$300.

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  • Painted by hand in oil on canvas
  • You approve a photo before it ships
  • Free delivery anywhere in Australia
Signac's Capo di Noli, framed in a sunny living room by the beach
Capo di Noli, after Signac. The room is a mock-up.
Klimt's Music I above a piano in a living room (room is a mock-up)

Have something painted

Send us a photo, or a picture of a painting you love, and we’ll paint it in oil on canvas.
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Claude Monet, Poppy Field: a woman and child walk through red poppies

Choose from Collection one

Eighteen classics we chose for how they look in a home, from Vermeer to Klee.
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What we can paint for you

A painting you love

Any public domain painting. Send us a photo of it or a link.

Your own photo

Pets, people, a house, a view. The painter works best from a sharp photo taken in good light.

Your photo in a painter's style

Your beach house as Monet might have painted it. Tell us which painter and we'll talk it through before we start.

Pick one of our sizes and you can pay straight away. If you want another size, or you’re not sure we can paint it, ask for a quote.

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Close-up of brushstrokes on trees in a recent commissionClose-up of brushstrokes on grass in a recent commission
Close-ups of a recent commission, photographed before framing.

Collection one

Eighteen paintings, each one painted after you order.
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Vincent van Gogh, Almond Blossom: white blossom on a turquoise sky

Almond Blossom

Van Gogh, 1890 · from A$300
Johannes Vermeer, The Little Street: a brick house front in Delft

The Little Street

Vermeer, c. 1658 · from A$300
Gustav Klimt, Music I: a woman in black playing a golden lyre

Music I

Klimt, 1895 · from A$300
Rachel Ruysch, Still Life with Flowers on a Marble Tabletop: flowers against a dark ground

Still Life with Flowers on a Marble Tabletop

Ruysch, 1716 · from A$300
Hilma af Klint, The Ten Largest No. 7: pink and yellow looping shapes

The Ten Largest, No. 7, Adulthood

Klint, 1907 · from A$300
James McNeill Whistler, Nocturne: Old Battersea Bridge at night in teal and gold

Nocturne: Blue and Gold, Old Battersea Bridge

Whistler, c. 1872–75 · from A$300
Caspar David Friedrich, Moonrise over the Sea: three figures on a rock at moonrise

Moonrise over the Sea

Friedrich, 1822 · from A$300
Paul Klee, Castle and Sun: coloured squares and triangles under a red sun

Castle and Sun

Klee, 1928 · from A$300

Put it together yourself, or have it arrive ready

Every painting comes one of two ways. The kit is cheaper because you do the stretching and framing.

DIY kit

From A$300It comes rolled in a tube. You stretch the canvas over the bars, then screw the frame together if you ordered one. How to put it together.
In the boxThe painted canvas, rolledStretcher bars, in piecesMetal corner brackets and screwsThe frame in pieces, if you add oneYou’ll needA staple gun and a screwdriver. Canvas pliers help, but you can do without.

Ready to hang

From A$500It arrives stretched, framed and wired, so it can go straight on the wall. Choose natural oak, black, white or a gilded frame.Almond Blossom, framed, above a cot in a nursery (room is a mock-up)
SizeDIY kitKit with frameReady to hang
50 × 40 cm (20 × 16 in)A$300A$380A$500
60 × 45 cm (24 × 18 in)A$350A$450A$600
75 × 60 cm (30 × 24 in)A$450A$570A$750
90 × 70 cm (36 × 28 in)A$550A$690A$900
Frames come in natural oak, black, white or gilded. Bespoke paintings are A$75 more. Any other size, we’ll quote.

From order to wall in three to four weeks

Choose

Pick a painting or send us yours. Then choose the size, the frame and how it arrives.

Approve a photo

Within two weeks, we email you a photo of the finished painting. Nothing ships until you’re happy with it.

Hang it

We ship within 3 business days of your approval, free anywhere in Australia.
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Questions people ask

All questions

No. Your painting is done by hand in oil on canvas, from scratch, after you order. Up close you can see the brushstrokes and the texture of the paint.

A sharp photo taken in good daylight, with the subject filling most of the frame. Phone photos are fine. If yours is a bit blurry or dark, send it anyway and I’ll tell you honestly how it’s likely to turn out.

If you’ve built flat-pack furniture you’ll manage. The frame is just screws and brackets. Stretching the canvas takes some patience: staple the middle of each side first, then work out towards the corners, pulling evenly as you go. The steps are on our kit page.

Close, but not identical. It’s painted by hand, so there will be small differences. The painter also adjusts the composition slightly to fit the canvas size you choose.

A studio of trained artists in China that I work with directly. Copying paintings in oil is their trade. I run everything else from Sydney: I check every canvas and answer every email.

Sisley's Flood at Port-Marly in a living room with a wood stove (room is a mock-up)

I’m Tom. I run Cavalletto from Darlinghurst in Sydney.

The painting is done by a studio of trained artists in China that I work with directly. They copy paintings in oil for a living, which is how I can sell a hand-painted canvas from A$300.

I check every painting against the original before you see it. If you email, you’ll get me.

hello@cavalletto.com.au

Start with a photo

Send us the picture, choose a size and a frame, and you’ll see the finished painting before it leaves the studio.

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