Commissioned work
A commissioned work or a commissioned work is a work that is or has been produced for a client .
Commissioned work in art
In art, pictures (painted, drawn, photographed) and sculptures, but also pieces of music (commissioned compositions) or poems are the subject of ( paid ) commissioned work.
Many artists in the visual arts make a living from commissioned work. Especially in the Middle Ages , rulers and wealthy merchant families had commissioned work made for portraits of their relatives or themselves. It was also common at this time for entire orchestral works to be composed to order.