Victorian Pet Portrait

About the Victorian Style

Victorian dresses your pet for a formal studio sitting from the 1800s. They wear a dark high-collared velvet jacket, a ruffled white cravat and a pearl-and-cameo brooch, posed in front of a painted backdrop in umber and sage with a draped curtain and a potted fern. An antique oil finish gives the colors a soft, aged warmth, and a gold nameplate with your pet's name finishes it like a family heirloom.

Where Renaissance Noble is dramatic and dark, Victorian is gentler and more parlor-like: genteel, a little stuffy and quietly funny. It suits Boston Terriers, pugs, spaniels, tuxedo cats and any pet with a prim expression. Many people look for a victorian dog portrait or victorian cat portrait as a gift for someone with a taste for antiques, and our victorian pet portrait page has more ideas.

It's a printed artwork in this style, not an antique and not real oil paint. Upload a photo and your free preview appears in about 30 seconds, with no account or card needed. You only pay if you love it.

Best for

• Pets with a prim, polite or slightly stuffy expression
• Boston Terriers, pugs, Cavaliers and tuxedo cats
• Gifts for antique lovers and period-drama fans
• A refined, parlor-style piece for a traditional home

Lovely in these spaces

• Entryways, hallways and staircases
• Dining rooms and sitting rooms
• Bedrooms and cozy reading corners

Think twice if

The sage-and-umber palette is muted and old-fashioned by design, so if you want bright color or a modern feel, a watercolor or Pop style will suit you better.