Immortalizing Pet Dogs Through Portraits

For so many generations, the most loved dogs stood at a special part of many an English drawing room. But now, paintings of pedigreed pets are already seen throughout New York living room walls while their real life counterparts stroll through the Central Park and other places. The popularity of the English style interior has combined with the longstanding devotion to man's best friend to make these canine canvases among the most collectible paintings around, whether the subjects are beribboned or leather collared, at rest or at play.

Englishmen are known to love their pet dogs immensely, even awarding these dogs a place in their hearts, as well as in family portraits. Such paintings depicted to be of hunting, shooting, racing and merely canine portraits according to him was already selling so well every since 1961, when the auction home began the sale of these sporting portraits. A portrait showcasing a Newfoundland which was a white and black dog was sold by the prolific painter for a record breaking price to a man who was so much into art pieces with sporting orientations.

Immersing oneself in 18th and mostly 19th century paintings enables one to move back and forth in time, through eras. The vast number of individuals that keep on buying these things are those who like being associated with things that are just beyond their social range, and these could include shooting with jackets and hounds and horses or simply some hunting sprees. A little shop was opened in Manhattan by a certain interior designer and antiques dealer who believes that there are so many lovers of dog paintings out there. And you will find here that there are so many dog portraits on blue and white covered walls, along with a few portraits of horses and cows.

Art collections is divided by two kinds of people. One are the people who happens to have the same dog as a certain subject in a portrait. And the second are the people who want to see if the painting is anatomically correct as they know the breed in and out. Certain occasions prove people preferring dog paintings than real walking dogs. When it comes to these dogs, you won't have to feed or walk them out. An interior decorator who is also a dog lover was able to get in London his first couple of portraits and now he has seen this trend becoming a expensive and in demand when he used to dismiss it as nonsense.

The decorator now reveals that he's got 75 dog paintings in possession, and some of them are displayed in his Manhattan apartment now, mostly hung with taffeta ribbons. While the speculation of most art specialists and dealers commonly note that portrait quality and artist dictate the price of one, still some people would say that like the way fashions in real dogs fluctuate, there are portraits of dog breeds that will always be more wanted than other ones. Not long ago, people seemed to only want the paintings with Cavalier King Charles spaniels but today, the West Highland Terriers, Cairns and Scottie paintings are becoming increasingly sought after. By way of a portrait, a German shepherd can stay with you.

The years 1850 to 1920 saw the heyday of dog painting trading, shares a dealer residing in a Manhattan bedroom apartment, living on selling dog paintings. He recounts that there was an influx of people looking for King Charles spaniels, Chinese shar peis as well as portraits of terriers. He has had around 10 demands for doberman pinscher paintings in the last year. Dobermans were only developed in the late 1880s and are such a recent breed thus there are practically no good paintings of them as he said he has never had a good Doberman painting.

Periodically, this artist spearheads special auctions of sporting themed paintings. Many of those bidding in the auction have decorated according to a famous fashion designer's look, and then some stay in countryside houses capable of hunting and racing. A lady that works for a major TV station as an advertising account executive decided to go buy a painting of a Spaniel after getting mesmerized by a photograph which was in black and white. While waiting for the painting to arrive from England, she bought a real ruby spaniel to match. The painting arrived three months later, but the dog pictured was a black and tan King Charles but she decided to keep the unmatched pair.


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