The Dynasty

The Dynasty is the only style we make that has a hierarchy built into it, and that is the reason people choose it.

At the centre, on a high carved throne and in the fullest regalia, sits the eldest: a full velvet robe with an ermine trimmed mantle and a tall jeweled crown. Standing at either side, in plainer mantles and smaller coronets, are the two younger heirs. The arrangement is not decorative. It says who arrived first, who has been there through the most, and who is still growing into the household.

That structure is why this portrait lands so hard for families whose animals came in stages: an older dog who was there before the children, then the one who arrived after, then the one who was never planned. The senior animal being visibly, ceremonially senior is the part that makes people go quiet when they unwrap it.

It is also the one to order when one of the three is getting old. A dynasty portrait made while all three are still in the house is a very different object a few years later.

For a three pet portrait we ask for one photo with all three animals in it. If the only pictures you have are of them separately, order anyway and say so in the order comments; we will come back to you for the extra photos before anything is made.