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Something like this?
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C8MY65C3 (white)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BNMV74ZZ (green screen)
B&H has this one, which I purchased on sale during Boxing Day, but was still 2x more than the Amazon one above (that I didn't know about at the time):
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1688998-REG/angler_bgvw_cg_813_8x13_wide_vista_background.html
So far I have not used the B&H one with the full 13' background (I also ordered the white and black fabrics at the time), but have assembled all the tubes and overall construction seems OK. I use the frames in various combinations to hold my 5x7' pop up backgrounds, which they keep nice and flat when clamped on. If I stand two of the frames as a V, I can clamp a pop up in the open space for a self-standing solution. But in any case, this isn't what you asked about...
I have done groups in the size of 6-8 people on a standard 10' wide fabric background but it's really tight, especially if most of the people are on the larger side. This is where the 13-footer should offer more breathing space and might be OK for ~10 people. While the fabric options are limited, the green screen does make it pretty easy to select the background and change its color and tonality, or swap in something different. You could swap in a photo of your hand painted background in its place if you wanted to...
Otherwise, along the lines of what Charley suggested, I would look for a suitable background in the space where you will be doing this photo. For example if it's a corporate environment, there are often common spaces, atriums, meeting rooms, for example, that could work. It could be as simple as a white wall, but you could also try for an environmental group photo. If the latter and if the space is a challenge to light suitably with the people in it, do a separate series of exposures with light optimized for the group, then another exposure of just the space without the group (with the camera in the same position as the group photo), then blend the two in post. This is also good to keep in mind if you have to shoot against glass and are getting undesirable reflections caused by your lights.
The challenge with outdoors is sun position and weather conditions. You generally don't want to position people in full sun, or facing the sun as they will squint and shadows will be harsh. Backlit can be better but a suitable wall in full shade is IMO usually best if the light falling on that space is 'clean' (i.e. not reflected off odd-color surfaces around that space, including trees/foliage/grass, which can result in unpleasant yellow-green color shifts). If you have the lighting equipment, indoors is usually a more controllable option; you won't be fighting variable cloudiness resulting in changing lighting conditions, wind blowing hair the wrong way, or potentially blowing over your lights if you intend to use large modifiers, etc. Indoors is also usually more accommodating to your subjects' preferred time for the photo, rather than sun position dictating ideal outdoor timing.
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