How to smooth lines of original oil painting

I had an artist paint an oil painting (on canvas) of our wedding venue to use as part of our wedding invitation. However, I didn't realize how an oil painting would print on paper and the brush strokes are nonuniform and visible. How can I smooth out the brush strokes?

50mm will be fine. I expect its sweet spot will be around f8
Align the lens axis with the center of the image and perpendicular to the image.
If the sun is bright, find some shade. In fact find some shade anyway.
Use a tripod
Take a test image with a sheet of white paper in front to the painting to set white balance to in Photoshop. But try to take the image well away from any brightly coloured surfaces that might reflect colour onto the painting.
DO NOT USE FLASH
Try and leave an inch or two of space around the painting. This will help you square it up in Photoshop
Later versions of Photoshop have a Perspective Crop tool that would let you correct any out of squareness of the photograph, but you can still do this with CS5
Open the image, and make any adjustments like black and white point.
Copy the background layer.
Turn on the grid (Ctrl ')
Free Transform (Ctrl t)
Hold down the Ctrl key, and drag each corner in turn to align the edges to the grid to square it up.
Crop out what is left.
Sharpen for print (View at 60% and go by the preview)
Be amazed by how much better it looks compared to the scanned version
Have a great special day, and best wishes to your SO
Now that's definitely me for today. (12.39am and I NEED my sleep)

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