Sign inDog portraits through history
How artists have pictured dogs through history, style by style. Each guide shows a dog in that style, and how to see your own dog in a scene from the past.
What is TimeWalkies?
TimeWalkies paints your dog into a famous moment from history and sends it as a postcard. A new place and time every morning.
How TimeWalkies works
Choose a photo of your dog.
You get your first TimeWalkies postcard immediately!
Then you get another one for free.
If you like them, keep them coming every day for $99 for a whole year (about 27¢ per day, one‑off payment, no auto‑renewal).
2 free postcards. No credit card.
Contents
5 guides
Custom dog portraits: styles, history, and what to expect
Learn what a custom dog portrait is, how the tradition began, which styles you can choose, and what to expect for price and turnaround time.
Daily dog picture: why the habit feels worth keeping
Learn where the daily dog picture habit comes from, why it feels meaningful, and simple ways to keep it going with your own dog every day.
Dogs in portrait paintings: a look through art history
See how painters from the 1500s to the 1990s placed dogs beside their sitters, and what those dogs were meant to say about the people they sat with.
The dog in the Arnolfini Portrait: what it means
Learn about the small dog in Jan van Eyck's 1434 Arnolfini Portrait, why it stands between the couple, and what it may have meant to symbolize.
Your dog in history: how dogs have appeared through the ages
Learn how dogs have appeared in real historical events and in art across the centuries, and how to picture your own dog in a fitting era.