Terms of Service

Acceptance

These terms govern the use of saintspaintings.com, published by Attribute & Emblem Publishing, and the purchase of paintings from Saints Oil Paintings by Art & See. Using the site means accepting them. If you do not accept them, do not use the site.

Who sells the paintings

Paintings on saintspaintings.com are sold by Art & See under the name Saints Oil Paintings by Art & See. Your order is a contract with Art & See, and the charge appears on your card statement under a descriptor that begins with ART&SEE.

What you are buying

Each painting is a reproduction painted by hand, in oil, by one of our artists, from an image of the original. It is not the original work and it is not by the original artist. It is made to order, after you buy it.

Brushwork, texture and colour will differ slightly from the original and from the image on your screen. That variation comes with a painting made by hand and is not a defect. Screens show colour differently, so no image on this site can promise an exact colour match.

Prices and payment

Prices are in US dollars and include shipping to a single address anywhere in the world. They do not include import duties or taxes charged by the country of delivery: the buyer is the importer of record and pays them.

Payment is taken at checkout and processed by Stripe. An order is confirmed once payment is. If a price or a description on the site turns out to be wrong, we may cancel the affected order, even after it is confirmed, and refund it in full.

Production, approval and delivery

A painting usually takes 2 to 3 weeks to make, up to 4 weeks for complex pieces and up to 8 weeks for large ones. Before it ships you receive a photograph of it, and it ships once you approve that photograph. Approving it confirms how the painting looks. The Shipping page on this site sets out packing, tracking and customs in full.

Cancellations and returns

You may cancel within 24 hours of ordering for a full refund. After delivery, the Returns page on this site sets out what can be done within 90 days, and it forms part of these terms. Frames are final sale.

The version of these terms and of the Returns page in effect when you place an order is the one that governs that order.

If something is wrong with an order, write to info@art-and-see.com before opening a dispute with your bank or card issuer. It is almost always the faster way to have it put right.

The copyright position of these paintings

Almost every painting catalogued here was made between the fourteenth and the eighteenth century. The painters have been dead for two hundred years and more, and the paintings themselves are in the public domain in every jurisdiction this site is likely to be read in. Nobody owns Zurbarán's Saint Francis.

What can still carry a claim is the photograph. Several European institutions assert a copyright in faithful photographic reproductions of works they hold. Courts in the United States have declined to recognise such a right, on the ground that an exact copy of a flat original involves no original authorship. The position genuinely differs by country, and this site does not resolve it for you.

Every entry names the collection that holds the work. Before reusing an image commercially, read the terms that collection publishes, because they are the terms that govern the photograph. If you believe an image here is used in breach of a right you hold, write to editors@saintspaintings.com and it will be removed while the claim is examined.

Using the catalogue text

Catalogue facts — a date, a support, a set of dimensions, the name of a collection — are facts, and facts are not owned by anybody. Take them and use them.

The written text of this site is a different matter: it is the work of Attribute & Emblem Publishing and is not offered for republication. Quote it, cite it and link to it freely. Do not copy pages wholesale, and do not feed the site to a scraper that reproduces it elsewhere as though it were its own.

What an identification here is worth

An identification on this site is a reading of what a picture shows. It is not a determination of fact, and it carries no authority beyond the record it cites. Attributes overlap, panels are damaged, and a figure that has been called one saint for a century is sometimes shown to be another.

Nothing published here should be relied on to authenticate a painting, to establish its provenance, or to support a valuation, an insurance claim or a sale. It is a finding aid for readers and students, and it is offered as one.

No warranty, and limits on liability

The site is provided as it is. No warranty is given that it will be available, that it will be free of error, or that it is fit for any particular purpose. Links to other sites are provided for reference and imply no responsibility for what is on them. Paintings you buy are covered by the sections on orders above and by the Returns page.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, no liability is accepted for indirect or consequential loss arising from use of the site, including loss arising from reliance on anything published here. Nothing in these terms limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud, where such a limit would not be permitted.

Changes, and where to write

These terms may change; the date at the top changes with them. For questions about an order, email info@art-and-see.com or call +1 (332) 296 0276 (Monday to Friday, 9 am to 6 pm CST). Questions about the catalogue go to Attribute & Emblem Publishing at editors@saintspaintings.com.