Personalisation, for us, means the painting has to look like this pet, their specific eye colour, their particular marking pattern, the slight cowlick above one ear. Not a template with a name overlaid.
How we personalise
You upload a photograph. We use it as the primary reference. The AI illustration tool draws on it, applying a 19th-century oil-painting style; the output is reviewed by us, then printed on a matte canvas and shipped locally to your address.
Name, species, breed, and dates don't appear on the canvas itself (we deliberately don't print text onto the painting, keeping it in the frame of a real portrait).
What we keep consistent
The painted style is the brand. We don't offer Renaissance-king themes, superhero parodies, or cartoon styles. Every Small Goodbyes canvas lives in the same quiet painted register. It's one of the reasons customers choose us, for a dignified portrait, not a novelty.
What you control
Primary photo choice and shipping country. Everything else follows from the photo.
Sizes and framing
- From £85.00, standard, 30 × 40cm.
- From £109.99, large, 50 × 70cm.
- From £119.99, pre-framed in solid wood, ready to hang. Two sizes, three frame colours. See the framed portraits →
If it doesn't look right
Tell us. We rework at no cost. If a printed canvas arrives damaged or misprinted, we reprint and reship, you keep the original.
What makes a personalised pet portrait good
A custom pet portrait worth keeping does three things at once: it captures the specific animal rather than the species, it keeps the pose dignified rather than cute, and it commits to one artistic register rather than mixing styles. Most personalised pet portraits fail on the second test, the customer asked for a portrait of their dog and received a portrait of any dog wearing a name. We resist that by anchoring every painting in your photograph's specific markings, posture, and gaze, then rendering them in a single style we've spent time on.
The art-historical reference for our house style is 19th-century oil portraiture: warm earth tones, visible brushwork, neutral background, the sitter centred and looking either toward or just past the viewer. It works equally well for a dog portrait, a cat, or any other animal whose face has structure to render. We don't do royal-costume parodies or novelty cartoons. We do paint four registers besides the oil, watercolour, charcoal, line and pastel, each rendered in the same reverent key rather than as a costume.
Where to go from here
This page is the hub. The detail lives on the dedicated pages: pet portrait, UK details (sizes, canvas specifications, delivery, ordering); framed pet portrait (the ready-to-hang version with three frame finishes).