Halloween commissions

Halloween Pet Portraits from Your Photo

Halloween decoration is mostly disposable. This is the other kind — a canvas of your own animal, rendered in the manner of one of our darker traditions, that earns its place on the wall in October and keeps it in November.

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The dark collections

Three traditions that suit the season

Every one of these traditions works by candle and shadow — two of them centuries before the holiday borrowed the look, one of them for the holiday itself. Your own animal, composed in the dark.

MCMXII

Orin Chase

First over the churchyard wall, every year

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MDCCCXC — MCMXXX

The Illustrated Halloween

Portrait studies of the sitters who kept the lanterns lit through the long October nights.

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MDCCCLXI

Ottoline Vesper

Of the house at Cold Ash; keeper of the west stair

MDCCCXL — MCM

The Gothic Revival

Portrait studies of the feline houses who kept the long candlelit halls of the Gothic Revival.

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MDCXLIII

Aletta van Muisvang

Widow of the spice trade; patroness of the almshouse

Gouden Eeuw · MDCXX—MDCLXXV

The Dutch Golden Age

Contemplative chamber portraits of the feline merchant-princes of the Low Countries.

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For the dog people and the cat people

Every tradition here is rendered for whichever animal is in the photograph — a dog and two cats sit in these dark rooms, to exactly the same standard.

A canvas meant to hang during the season has to be on the wall before it starts. Printing and shipping typically take 5–12 business days once you approve your proof, and international orders take longer, so early September is the comfortable window — and the portrait is worth hanging long after October.

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