For many people, a framed portrait is what they mean when they say "a portrait on the wall." The canvas stretcher is the artist's object; the frame is the finished, gallery-ready object. We're offering both, the choice is yours.
Three sizes
Each framed size is canvas in a slim frame, made upright, with every material on the specification page. Fixings for the wall are not included.
- 30x41cm. Close to the proportions of the unframed canvas, now framed. Right for a hallway, a bedroom wall, above a desk.
- 41x51cm. A gallery scale: it fills a living-room wall without dominating the room.
- 51x71cm. The largest framed canvas we print.
Four frame colours
The colours are different finishes on the same profile. The natural and brown frames are real wood. The full construction is on the specification page. Price changes with size, not colour, and is shown before you order.
- Black. The cleanest choice. Works with a pale wall and a coloured portrait; reads as editorial, not traditional.
- White. Light and quiet. Suits a pale wall and a soft portrait.
- Natural. Pale and calm. For rooms with plenty of wood already, or where you don't want the frame to compete.
- Brown. Warmer than black, still formal.
The same portrait, presented as a gallery piece
Framed and unframed versions use the same artwork, the portrait in a painted style, made from your photo, in the house style we already apply to every canvas. The frame doesn't change the art; it changes the object the art arrives as.
4 to 9 working days to UK addresses. Fixings for the wall are not included. UK delivery is included.
A custom pet portrait, framed before it reaches you
A framed pet portrait is the version of a custom pet portrait that arrives already framed, no separate framing trip, no choosing a mount that doesn't quite suit, no stretching or stapling. It is the same portrait we make for every customer, in the same warm oil-painting style, but presented as a finished object, not a printed canvas you then have to figure out. Framed pet portraits in the UK tend to fall into two camps: mass-printed images in plastic-effect frames at one end, and studio-painted commissions at the other. We sit between them. The portrait is made from your photograph in our house style, and the frame is a slim profile in black, white, natural or brown.
For dogs and cats
Every framed pet portrait we make is of a dog or a cat. The order is the same for both: you upload a photograph, and we make the portrait from it in the house style. Larger dogs and cats land especially well in the 41×51cm size, where the head fits with more presence. For another species, get in touch, we don't make portraits of horses, birds, or small pets yet, but we'd like to hear from you.
A framed pet portrait as a gift, birthday, Christmas, and the others
A framed canvas as a gift sits oddly between two registers. It's too considered to be casual, a framed portrait isn't a stocking-filler, and too restrained to be theatrical. The right occasions are usually the considered ones: a milestone birthday for someone whose dog has been with them for a decade, a Christmas gift for a parent whose cat has been in every family photograph since the children were small, an anniversary of a pet's arrival, not their loss.
Made to order: allow 4 to 9 working days for UK delivery. Christmas order-by dates are on our delivery and returns page. If the framed pet portrait is for someone who doesn't yet know it's coming, tick "This is a gift" in your basket, then enter their name and address as the delivery address at checkout. There are no prices or receipt in the parcel.
Multi-pet portraits, and watercolour vs oil style
We can make one portrait of two or more pets together in a single framed canvas, provided you have a usable photograph of them in the same frame, same lighting, same orientation, both faces clearly visible. Composite portraits (two pets photographed separately, made to look as if together) are not something we currently offer; the seam tends to read, and we'd rather not make a piece you'd find unconvincing later.
Our house style is an oil-painting style: warm earth tones, visible brushwork, and the composition of a classic portrait. Watercolour is the other one people ask for, and we make it: soft translucent washes, visible paper grain, luminous white-paper highlights. It suits a lighter room and a paler wall; the oil holds a darker room better. See the watercolour pet portrait.
Related: the unframed canvas, the full specification, and the rest of this stage. Every size, frame and price is on the formats page.