For generations, portraits of favorite dogs have held a special place in English drawing rooms. Today, while real dogs, especially pedigreed ones, happily stroll through Central Park, their painted counterparts hang alongside beautiful artwork in nearly every New York City home. Dogs have always been known as man’s best friends and humans have remained loyal to them too, so this, coupled with the fact that English-style interiors have become very popular now, is responsible for the demand for many dog ​​portraits, whether presenting a dog with ribbons, or one with a leather collar, one playing, another at rest.

The English are known to love their dogs immensely, even granting these dogs a place in their hearts, as well as in family portraits. Such paintings depicted as hunting, shooting, racing and simply dog ​​portraits, according to him, were already selling so well since 1961, when the auction house began selling these sports portraits. The prolific artist achieved a record sale price after selling a portrait of a black-and-white dog known as a Newfoundland to a man who was a sports artist.

Seeing paintings from the 18th century and mainly from the 19th century can make you feel like you are in another era. The kind of people who go for these kinds of pieces are the ones who want to associate themselves with things that are way beyond their social rank and that includes hunting sprees or maybe shooting with as many hounds, horses, and with their jackets on. Believing there are tons of dog painting lovers out there, an antiques dealer and interior designer opened her own little art shop in the borough of Manhattan. This shop features neat portraits of dogs along with some cows and horses as well.

Art collections are divided by two types of people. One is people who have the same dog, so they would like a certain breed to be represented in the painting. The second is for those who are very passionate about the look of the breed and analyze whether the picture of the dog’s anatomy is as accurate as it should be. There will be situations in which these canine paintings are preferred to the living ones. It is no longer necessary to take these dogs out for a walk or a feast. An interior designer remembers how he thought it was nonsense when he bought his first two dog portraits in London and has now seen this trend becoming extremely expensive and in demand.

But today, the proud decorator reveals that 75 of these portraits are on display in his Manhattan home and some are enhanced with taffeta bows as they hang. Eve With the emphasis art dealers and specialists place on the quality of the painting along with the name of the artist setting the price, there are those who still insist that like ever-changing canine fashions, some dog portraits they are simply more in demand than some other types. Cavalier King Charles Spaniels are the one everyone always wants, but West Highland Terriers, Scotties, and Cairns are particularly popular right now. You can have your German Shepherd by your side forever by depicting him in a portrait.

The years between 1850 and 1920 saw the heyday of dog paintings, according to a prolific dealer who lived in a small one-room space in Manhattan. At some point, he was bombarded with so many questions from people searching for pictures of Chinese shar peis, King Charles spaniels, and adorable terrier dogs. He shares that he had found in the last year about 10 requests for a portrait with a doberman pinscher in it. He shares that he has never held a great painting of a Doberman as this breed was only developed in the late 1880s, and being a recent breed, it was understandable why he can’t find good old portraits of them.

The artist manages to hold special sports painting auctions periodically. Many of the bidders have decorated after the look of a famous fashion designer, and there are those who have country houses, who hunt and run. A woman whose profession revolved around a major television network as an advertising account executive decided to get her hands on a Spaniel painting after she saw a mesmerizing photo of a dog in shades of black and white. To match the picture of her from England that will be here in a while, she bought herself a ruby ​​red spaniel. When the dog finally arrived after three months of waiting, it turned out to be a black and tan King Charles breed, so she got incomparable dogs and this was not how she expected it to be.