The same canvas print, written for housewarming.
The same canvas print, written for New Home.
The same canvas print, written for Pet Portrait.
The default retirement gift is a card everybody signs and a voucher. A canvas costs about the same per head and is still on a wall a decade later.
Retirement is a family event as much as a work one. A canvas of the grandchildren, given on the same day, marks what the time is being freed up for.
Not every leaving is a retirement. Twenty or thirty years at one place deserves marking whether or not the person is stopping work.
A boat, an allotment, a house abroad, a long walk. A canvas of the thing itself reads as attention paid rather than a gift chosen from a list.