•The ledger

The Ledger

One entry for every portrait the house has made: the photograph it began from, the school it was rendered in, and the sitting it became. Every commission is entered, and the number is never reused.

• Kaya — a memorial pet portrait, made from the photographs that stayedShe had been gone more than fifteen years, and the only photographs left were small, blurred and taken on a phone in...2 August 2026
• No. 0006Mia — a Yorkshire Terrier pet portrait in the court manner · Commission No. 0006A Yorkshire Terrier given the one court role that was actually written for a small sitter. The bow is hers; the court...2 August 2026
• No. 0005Tomy — a cat portrait in the astronomer’s manner · Commission No. 0005The commission where the archetype arrived before the study did. A cat, and the night sky given to him to keep.2 August 2026
• No. 0004Rayan — a British Shorthair cat portrait in the Spanish court manner · Commission No. 0004The first sitter from outside the house, and the ledger’s first cat. Three studies argued; the Spanish court won because it is...2 August 2026
• No. 0003Aya — a French Bulldog pet portrait in the imperial manner · Commission No. 0003The only commission in the ledger photographed at all three stages — the garden snapshot, the approval render, the canvas on the...2 August 2026
• No. 0002Sensei — an American Bully pet portrait in the Rembrandt manner · Commission No. 0002Four finished portraits came out of this sitting and three of them stayed in the drawer. The one that won did so...2 August 2026
• No. 0001Cali — a French Bulldog pet portrait in the court manner · Commission No. 0001The first portrait the house ever made, from a phone photograph taken indoors against a plain wall. She holds No. 0001 because...2 August 2026