Thank you for your interest in Portraits, Inc. Our annual review period for 2025 is now closed. Current applicants will be notified of our decision by mid-August.
We are always interested in adding new talent to our roster of artists, and we invite you to submit your work to us annually during the month of June. Our selections are made with the goal of maintaining the highest standards of artistic excellence and to ensure that we offer the strongest variety of styles, mediums, and price ranges to our clients. Because we are an active business, it is impossible to give a review of artists' portfolios in person or by phone or e-mail. A Portrait Review Board comprised of staff, top sales associates, and current artists meets once annually during the summer to look at submissions by prospective artists.
Details of how to submit will be added to this page before June 1st. No early submissions, please. To prepare your work for the next review, please assemble the following:
7-10 examples of your most recent portraits in a folder titled with your first and last name. Include in the folder a list of the works being submitted with the medium and size of each portrait. Portraits may be of people, animals, or architecture. Images of non-portrait work (illustrations, genre scenes, figure studies, etc.) should be sent in addition to, not instead of, your portrait examples. Please include reference photographs of your subjects whenever possible to show the quality of the likenesses.
Your biography listing education, exhibition history, awards, and any articles published. Please include your website.
Your current price list and a description of your working methods. Prices submitted should reflect a 60% (artist) - 40% (agency) arrangement.
A list of three past clients for whom you have completed commissioned work with names, phone numbers or emails whom we may contact as a reference.
Please list the number of commissions you are able to complete in a year, your turnaround time from first sitting to delivery, and any other agencies/agents who currently represent your portrait work.
A $30 application fee will be due with each portfolio in order to be reviewed.
Please be assured that we will give your portfolio our careful consideration. Those interested in applying should check back to this page in Spring 2026 for instructions on submitting.
