On 21 October 2026, English Wikipedia's article on the 1930 farmhouse double portrait drew 16,236 human page views - after 1,025 to 1,543 a day for most of the month (Wikimedia's daily counts). Time to hang your own.
After the MastersRecreate a famous painting at home with the people and props you have
Museums call a copy "after" the artist. Pick a painting, say who can pose - a pet or a dressmaker's dummy counts - and list what is in your cupboards. Get the casting, a stand-in for every key element, the light, the phone framing and a wall label for the finished photo.
1 The painting
2 Your cast and props
3 On the wall
Numbers under the figures are the casting order; the small squares are the painting's key elements.
Loan register
| Lot | In the painting | Your stand-in | Status |
|---|
4 Ask the shoot director
One run casts every figure with a pose cue, finds a stand-in for each key element - from your list, made or borrowed, or left out of frame - sets the light and the phone framing, plans the shoot in four to seven stops and writes the wall label.
The verdict follows a fixed order: swap the painting if fewer than half its figures can be cast; otherwise re-hang if a figure is cropped out or any element is not from your list; otherwise hang it.
5 Your collection
How the free side works
The nine paintings carry our own short notes: how many figures, who they are, the key elements, which way the picture hangs and - for five of them - roughly which side the light comes from. Those light sides are approximate. The draft casting fills the figures in the order you list people, then stand-ins. The prop guess matches words between each element and your props, with a few everyday synonyms (a garden fork can stand in for a pitchfork, a scarf for a head wrap); it is only a guess, and the shoot director decides. The hanging rule is plain arithmetic: fewer than half the figures cast means swap; a figure cropped out or any element not from your list means re-hang; otherwise hang it.
A returned plan is checked against your brief: the verdict against the hanging rule, one casting row per figure, every name in your cast and nobody cast twice, every "from your list" prop really on your list, the light side against the painting's, the frame's orientation, a swap painting that your cast can fill, and no he or she for anyone. Keep props safe: forks and sticks stay upright with the points away from faces.