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You can find a list of twenty or so portrait agents elsewhere on this site, with contact information.
I do my own marketing, following the ideas in great books like "Art Marketing 101" and "Taking the Leap - Building a Career as a Visual Artist", both available on Amazon. I'm also doing a lot of personal networking and donating to four or five very high-end charity auctions in the city where I live (Seattle).
I've always heard that any artist (or any self employed business person, for that matter) needs to spend about half their time on marketing. That's about what I do. Given that, I understand why the agents charge 40%. Having a productive agent relationship frees the artist from having to spend all that time on doing their own marketing.
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