I paint pets. The dogs who claim the sofa, the cats who rule the windowsill, the animals whose eyes we cannot look past. Each portrait is painted slowly, in the manner of the Old Masters: built in layers, weighed in silence, given the same attention they once gave to kings and saints.
Self-taught. Based in Paris. Working in oil and digital. Commissions open worldwide.
"The little dog at the edge of the Arnolfini portrait is also a portrait."
Elle Montrose
Bespoke pet portraits in oil and digital, painted from your photographs with the patience of the Old Masters. Commissions open worldwide. Response within 48 hours.
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Bespoke pet portraits in oil on canvas, each one commissioned and one-of-a-kind. Unframed unless specified. Ships worldwide with certificate of authenticity.
Pet portraits from €300 in oil, from €200 in digital. Painted from your photographs. Delivery 3–6 weeks from approval of the preliminary sketch.
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Giclée prints of selected pet portraits, on archival cotton rag paper. Limited editions of 30. Each print signed and numbered. Ships in a protective tube.
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I paint pets. The dogs who claim the sofa, the cats who rule the windowsill, the spaniels who know the exact moment you are about to reach for the leash. Each portrait is commissioned by someone who wanted their companion captured with the weight the Old Masters once gave their subjects.
Self-taught. My apprenticeship has been the museum: years spent in front of Velázquez, Oudry, Chardin, the quiet dogs in the corners of Rembrandt and Van Eyck. I work in oil on canvas and in digital, applying the same patient layering either way.
Based in Paris. Commissions open worldwide.
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