Thanks, Jeff,
I thought of masking the head of the person as well (I have motion, so it should be possible), but how do I achieve the head not being cut out and the background coming through, but the head staying in front of the ‘wall-fill-in’? (I think this is a common keying-mind twist..). So if I get this point clear, I can probably use a difference matte for the region of the painting only, which would provide an accurate key without animating a shaped mask or processing the whole video with the matte.
So how do I configure a mask for staying on top, rather than becoming transparent and letting the background pass through?