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I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.
Leonardo da Vinci



Dogs, drawing by Leonardo da Vinci



Marguerite Yourcenar & her Pekinese dog


Marguerite Yourcenar in her mid-twenties with her Pekinese. For her dog she wrote the essay “Suite d’estampes pour Kou-Kou-Haï” in 1927


Marguerite Yourcenar with her Valentine in 1968



Man and Dog: David and Eli
by Lucian Freud


Lucian Freud was a dog lover - he owned two beloved whippets named Pluto and Eli - and many of his portraits coupled himself and friends with dogs.


[Double Portrait, 1985]


[Girl WIth A White Dog, 1951]




Bruce Weber and his Golden Retriever dogs




A Cavalier King Charles Spaniel enjoying a run



Prince George and Lupo with the Duchess of Cambridge and Prince William
by Jason Bell




Picasso & Lump

Love till the end: both Picasso and Lump died in April 1973, one week apart.





Picasso & his dog Kasbel with Dora Maar
by Man Ray





HM Queen Elizabeth II and her Corgies


HM Queen Elizabeth did have Cavaliers, like Queen Victoria before her, when she was young.




Walking the Dog - Beginner's Luck
Music by Gershwin with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers



Marylin Monroe with her dogs





President J F Kennedy & family with dogs



Lauren Bacall with her dog




Eli in Lucian Freud studio
by David Dawson




A Dog by Alberto Giacometti



Rita Hayworth with Dog



Brigitte Bardot with Dog




Man and Dog: David and Eli
by Lucian Freud




Alfred Hitchcock and his Dog reading the news



Clark Gable and his dog Lord having a conversation



A Cavalier King Charles Spaniel
by Édouard Manet



Photographer William Wegman on his dogs and 'Flo & Wendell'



Tom Sellek with his 3 CKCS








Me, Argos, seating at Siddhartha House
[2009]




'Umberto D'
by Vittorio de Sica



Lucian Freud with Fox at 88
by David Dawson



Picasso & Lump



[Picasso & Kabul, by Douglas Duncan]



The Way My Dog Loves Me
by Jimmy Ellis



Bette Davis with Dog talking on the radio

Beauty's bath
(Princess Victoria bathing her beloved Dash)
by Edwin Henry Landseer (1802 – 1873, English)



The Dog Song
by Nellie McKay



Black Eye Dog
by Nick Drake



Princess Victoria with her beloved Dash
by George Hayter



I Love My Dog
by Lindy Gravelle



Grace Kelly with Dog




Emma Zorn with Dog



My Dog Loves Me
by La La Craig



Ginger Rogers with Dog



Odysseus with Argos



Sunlight on Cavalier King Charles Spaniel
by Phillip Tarlow



Cate Blanchett with children and one, Fletcher, of his 3 dogs (Carol and Egg)



I Love My Dog
by Cat Stevens



Old King
by Neil Young with Emmylou Harris



Walking the Dog
by Jack McDuff



My dog loves your dog (1934)
With Jimmy Durante, Dixie Dunbar, Rudy Vallee, Alice Faye and Cliff Edwards



Jake Gyllenhaal and his dogs



Maurice Sendak with his Dog
by Annie Leibovitz



Humphrey Bogart and his Dog



Young man and dog playing



Youth and Dog resting



Man and Dog sleeping



Ronald Reagan and his Cavalier King Charles Spaniel Rex



Photographer William Wegman with his dog Fay Ray
by Annie Liebovitz



Kahlo with her Dog



['Itzcuintli with Me']



Hockney & dog Stanley



O'Keeffe with her Dogs



Jonhy Depp & his CKCS



Princess Margaret & her CKCS Rowley



James Franco & his CKCS



Download to read:


The CKCS of Charles Faudree


Frank Sinatra & his CKCS


'My Life with George'


Victoria Beckman & her CKCS