October 21, 2020
You never quite know the formula for becoming an internet, social media sensation perhaps because there is no formula. But, Phil Heckels’s questionable skills as an artist have caught the imagination of the public....
April 10, 2016
I have just discovered the work of Steven Keiper Jr and I’d like to promote it. I want to promote his work because, through the struggles of a person close to me, I understand...
June 1, 2012
Cats in paintings are pictures of cats and that is why they are on this website. There are some very interesting uses of the domestic cat, and of the wild cat in paintings, by...
May 25, 2012
Portrait de Jeune Femme Tenant un Chat by Michael The translation is a portrait of a young woman holding a cat. I guess most visitors would deduce that! Bacchiacca Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons...
May 25, 2012
Portrait of Cleophea Holzhalb by Michael Portrait of Cleophea Holzhalb Portrait of Cleophea Holzhalb is dated 1538. This is an early date to see a painting with a domestic cat featured so prominently. It...
May 25, 2012
by Michael Porträt der Mademoiselle Julie Manet mit Katze This is a portrait of Julie Manet with a cat. It is by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) the celebrated French artist who was a leading light...
May 25, 2012
Fleurs et chats by Pierre-Auguste Renoir by Michael Fleurs et chats by Pierre-Auguste Renoir This is another oil painting by Renoir, painted in 1881, when Renoir was 40 years of age. I have just...
May 25, 2012
Chartreux cat of 1747 by Michael Portrait of Magdaleine Pinceloup de la Grange, née de Parseval In this painting of 1747 by Jean-Baptiste Perronneau, Portrait of Magdaleine Pinceloup de la Grange, née de Parseval,...
May 25, 2012
I would like to show you some wildcat art in the form of oil and watercolor paintings. The artists are both extremely talented; Rochelle Mason who paints in oils and Linda Dupuis-Rosen who paints...
Cat Breeds / Cats in Art / Turkish Van
May 25, 2012
by Michael (London, UK) William Hogarth – The Distressed Poet….I am interested in this painting because I have driven past Hogarth’s country residence many times. The interesting point is that it is no longer...
May 25, 2012
Three Watercolours of African Cats by Susie Bearder (Spain) Dark Mane Female leopard Where’s my mum? The lion is known as Dark Mane by the BBC Big Cat Diary technicians. The leopard female is...
May 25, 2012
by Michael (London, UK) The Old Woman and the Cat (Akka ja kissa) (1885) is a painting that I like very much and not just because it has a cat in it! It was...
May 25, 2012
I consistently see the Anthropomorphism of wild cats and domestic cats in old drawings and paintings. Anthropomorphism (try and spell that!) is the attribution of human characteristics to animals etc. as you probably know....
May 25, 2012
Leonardo da Vinci’s Study of Cat Movements and Positions is interesting on two levels. Firstly there is the obvious Leonardo genius in drawing, with which we are so familiar and which can seen in...
May 25, 2012
Sasha & Chilli in Watercolour Pencils by Tracy Louisa Steel (Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom) Sasha Chilli Hi I just got back into painting this week and need a little practice but I love...
