Choosing a style, or ready to order? The pet portraits page is where you pick one of the five and see a free preview.
This is the page for anyone who wants to know exactly what arrives before they order it. A hand-painted commission from a working artist is a different product with a different price and a much longer wait, and if that is what you want, that is what you should buy; we are not going to quote you a figure for one, because we have no source for it. What we make is a portrait in a painted style, printed to order. Every size and price is on the formats page, where it is read from the database, not typed into a sentence that goes stale.
Ordering a canvas for Christmas
If the canvas is going to someone for Christmas, the practical points are short. It is printed to order and delivered to UK addresses only, with delivery included in the price. Allow 4 to 9 working days, and read the delivery estimate you are shown before you pay. For Christmas, the last order dates are on our delivery and returns page.
What the canvas looks like
Your photo is regenerated by AI in the manner of a Victorian oil portrait: soft light, visible brushwork, warm earthy colours and a plain background, with your pet head and shoulders, looking out. No cartoons, no templates, no costumes. It looks painted, not like an enlarged photograph, and you see a free watermarked preview before you pay.
Materials, as the manufacturer describes them
Everything below is read off the product code our printer fulfils, not off a brochure. Where their code does not say something, we do not say it either.
- Canvas: canvas, stretched over a 2cm FSC-certified wood frame. We used to call it "matte archival canvas, hand-stretched"; the manufacturer's own specification says none of those three things, so nor do we now.
- Canvas sizes: 30x40cm and 50x70cm.
- Framed canvas: three sizes, 30x41cm, 41x51cm or 51x71cm, each in a slim frame you choose in black, white, natural or brown. Of the four, natural and brown are real wood. There is no gilt and no mount. Wall fixings are not in the box.
- Paper prints: 250gsm uncoated off-white archival paper, at A3, A2 and 50x70cm.
- Framed paper prints: a lighter paper behind perspex, not glass, in a slim frame, black, white, natural or brown, from 30x40cm to 50x70cm.
- How it is made: printed to order, and posted to UK addresses only.
Sizes and framing
Every size, frame and price is listed on the formats page, which reads them from the database. We deliberately do not repeat prices in the writing on this site: a typed figure drifts the moment anything is repriced, and a stale price on a memorial page is a bad way to meet somebody. For the pre-framed version, see the framed portrait.
What we don't do
We don't invent pets. We don't stitch together "memory portraits" of pets you never photographed. We don't take cartoon themes, your dog won't become a Renaissance king in a ruff collar. If the portrait on screen does not look like them, you don't accept it, and you pay nothing. If a printed canvas arrives damaged, misprinted or not what you ordered, our delivery and returns page applies: tell us as soon as you can with your order reference and a photo, and we reprint or refund, your choice.
Delivery
Made to order, then posted: 4 to 9 working days in total. Delivery is included and we ship within the UK only. You see the estimate before paying.
Related: the framed portrait, a cat portrait, personalised pet portraits, and the rest of this stage.