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My sister had a portrait of her dog done at a similar site. I looked into it and noticed it was not a registered business in any country. Had no fixed address or employees listed. She did however receive a decent print but the thing was for sure 100% ai upscaled dropship stuff. Take a risk with your credit card if you really want to, but the real handmade stuff is going to be so obvious that you wouldn't have thought to ask.

I got a reproduction of a painting I really liked over the years and seen many times hanging in a museum. It looks like the original, extremely high quality, hand painted, and it cost 800 €. It even got a certificate of the artist who recreated it with the techniques and materials she used. There is a market for this, but you should first check the website obviously that it's not a fake store.

But if it's not, it's legit and legal.

A “handmade, museum-quality reproduction” painting sounds a little bit too good to be true

Wait which part? It's a thing, there is or was a city in China where making hand reproductions is their main industry, but it sounds like you specifically went looking so that's not a surprise.

If you're sus because of the price: Cheap third-world labour. Actually, you could probably find even cheaper, since $335 is still a bit. If you're wondering if it will actually be "museum quality", well, that's an advertising term and not a meaningful thing in the first place. It's all down to how experienced the particular artist is, and there's of course a risk that they won't ship you the thing described at all.

There was a company reproducing artwork like this using an advanced printer that used paints. Not sure whatever happened to them.

https://www.yottaprinter.com/applications/fine-art-printing

no reproduction would be held by a museum, and museums would hold even “low” quality artifacts that represented a significant aspect of creativity or innovation, so that’s weird wording.

But, it’s going to be oil paint on a canvas instead of a digital print. The work being reproduced is probably not covered by copyright.