Portraits of Animals
For thousands of years human beings have immortalised animals in their art from cave walls to richly framed oil paintings in galleries in Europe. The art of portraiture gives a far more personal impression of the relationship between the animal, its owner and the artist.
Why commission a portrait of your dog or cat or horse, parrot, bull, prize ram? While photography captures an animal's physical traits accurately, the rendering of a portrait by human hand, the drawing out and emphasising of feature and expression, the subtle detail in the crinkle of an eye, captures the character of the animal, its soul, and this is what makes that animal stand out for you from among all others of its breed, this personality is what makes the animal special and is what makes a hand-painted or drawn portrait a work of art worth owning.
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