This gallery features a curated collection of classic animal paintings and animal portraits of cats, dogs, horses, farm animals, woodland creatures and wildlife all art sourced from public domain painting archives, art museums around the world, and the best vintage art online. Each art print here is available as free printable wall art and formatted for easy at-home printing or professional reproduction. Because everyone deserves beautiful art to print for their home.
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The current top trending vintage animal art & animal paintings in the public domain for 2025.
Aert Schouman “Knobbelzwaan”
Moses Haughton “An Owl”
Juliusz Kossak “Horse’s head”
François Desportes “Rabbits”
Willem Pieneman “Portrait Study of Copenhagen, the Duke of Wellington’s Horse, Jan”
Carel Fabritius “The Goldfinch”
Thomas Smith of Derby “Borlase Cokayne as a Boy riding Sultana”
Henriëtte Ronner-Knip “A Sleeping Cat”
John Boultbee “A Bay Horse in a Field”
James Ward “Ryelands Sheep”
John Constable “Golding Constable’s Black Riding-Horse”
Sawrey Gilpin “A Setter at the Edge of a Wood”
The Equestrian Collection
A curated collection of the best free printable vintage equestrian art and horse paintings currently available online and in the public domain.
John Boultbee “A Bay Horse in a Field”
William J. Shayer “Foxhunting: Coming to a Fence (Full Cry)”
Thomas Woodward “Horses in a Thunderstorm”
John Constable “Golding Constable’s Black Riding-Horse”
John Dalby “The Quorn Hunt in Full Cry- Second Horses, after Henry Alken”
Thomas Smith of Derby “Borlase Cokayne as a Boy riding Sultana”
Jacques-Laurent Agasse “A Groom Mounted on a Chestnut Hunter, He Holds a Bay Hunter by the Reins”
Juliusz Kossak “Amazon Woman”
Carl Schuch “Horse Study”
Juliusz Kossak “Horse’s head”
Jozef Hanula “Black horse head study”
Ladislav Mednyánszky “Foal”
Piotr Michałowski “Bay Horse’s Head”
Willem Pieneman “Portrait Study of Copenhagen, the Duke of Wellington’s Horse, Jan”
Eliphalet Fraser Andrews “Figures on Horseback”
Monogrammist AG “Portrait of a riding horse”
Francis Sartorius “Sir Charles Warre Malet’s String of Racehorses at Exercise”
Benjamin Marshall “The Earl of Coventry’s Horse”
The Canine Collection
A handpicked selection of the best free printable vintage canine art and dog paintings available online and in the public domain.
Sawrey Gilpin “A Setter at the Edge of a Wood”
Edwin Henry Lansee “Lion-A Newfoundland Dog”
George Stubbs “Foxhound”
George Stubbs “Foxhound”
William Barraud “A Couple of Foxhounds with a Terrier”
George Garrard “Ranger, a setter, the property of Elizabeth Gray”
John Emms “Two Hounds and a Terrier in a Kennel”
John Emms “Waiting for Master”
Edouard Manet “A King Charles Spaniel”
Willem Witsen “Portrait of the Dog Phoebus”
Anton Weinberger “Boxer mit Ball”
Carolus-Duran “Le chien ‘chinois’”
Richard Voltz “St. Bernard dog”
Anton Romako “Head of a Butcher Dog”
Friedrich Carl von Scheidlin “Study of a lying dog”
Alexander Pock “Mungo”
Guillaume Anne van der Brugghen “Dog on a Chair”
M. Gurcin “Seated Hound (19th Century)”
Sir Edwin Henry Landseer “A Spaniel Lying Down”
Vitor Mueller “The Seidenpinscher Puss”
Wilhelm Trübner “Caesar am Rubicon”
Edouard Manet “Tête du chien ‘Bob'”
Edvard Munch “Dog’s Face”
Nicolas Toussaint Charlet “Head of a Dog”
The Feline Collection
A gathered selection of my favorite vintage cat art and cat paintings available online and in the public domain.
Ferdinand Oldewelt “Angorakat”
Henriëtte Ronner-Knip “The Maine Coon”
Louis-Eugène Lambert “A Cat and Three Kittens”
Ferdinand Oldewelt “Angorakat”
Henriëtte Ronner-Knip “A Sleeping Cat”
Adolph von Menzel “Landscape”
Marie-Yvonne Laur “Lekkere Melk”
Théophile Steinlen “Chat sur un fauteuil”
Adolf von Becker “Kissa poikasineen”
Adolf Von Becker “Sleeping Grey Cat And A Rat”
Maria Wiik “Lying Cat, Mosse”
John Frederick Herring Snr. “A White Cat”
Arthur Heyer “White Cat and two Brimstone Butterflies”
August Macke “Katze auf grünem Kissen”
Arthur Heyer “White Cat and Butterflies”
Henriëtte Ronner-Knip “A Sleeping Cat”
Théophile Steinlen “Chat sur un fauteuil”
Pieter Bartholomeusz. Barbers “Zittende kat, van voren”
The Farmyard Collection
A thoughtfully sourced gallery of farm animal paintings featuring cows, chickens, sheep and pigs currently available as free printable art.
George Hendrik Breitner “Vier koeien”
James Ward “Ryelands Sheep”
Willem Maris “Koeien”
Heinrich Von Zügel “Sheep in a Barn”
Rosa Bonheur “Ram”
William Charles Estall “A Flock of Sheep”
Constant Troyon
Unfinished Study of Sheep
Johan Lundbye “Grazing red heifer. Study”
Asher Brown Durand “River Scene”
Friedrich Gauermann “Cow in a Barn”
Charles Emile Jacque “Chickens”
George Morland “Pigs”
Anton Mauve “On The Dunes”
Henry of Reins “Sheep Park”
Charles Emile Jacque “The Hen-Roost”
Harry Thompson
“Landscape with Sheep, Picardy”
Willem Maris “Cow beside a Ditch”
Michał Elwiro Andriolli “Sheep in the meadow at the forest edge”
The Avian Collection
A curated collection of the best free printable bird illustrations and bird paintings currently available online and in the public domain.
Moses Haughton “An Owl”
Olga Boznańska “Birdcage”
Jozef Chelmonski “Cranes”
Carel Fabritius “The Goldfinch”
Alexander Koester “In der Abendsonne”
Aert Schouman “Knobbelzwaan”
John Constable “Cloud Study” (With Birds)
Willem Maris “Eendjes”
Bruno Liljefors “Stock Dove”
Marinus Adrianus Koekkoek The Younger “Parrots”
Unknown Central European master “Flamingos”
Olga Wisinger-Florian “Duck Pond”
Paul Hüet “Needle-Tailed Swift (Hirundapus caudaculus)”
Robert Havell after John James Audubon “Arctic Tern”
Johann Friedrich Naumann “Grus grus”
Johann Friedrich Naumann “Grus virgo, Grus leucogeranus Pall”
Robert Havell after John James Audubon “Columbia Jay”
Robert Havell after John James Audubon “Forked-tail Flycatcher”
The Woodland Creatures Collection
A handpicked selection of the best free printable vintage woodland animal art and woodland animal paintings available online and in the public domain.
Franz Xaver von Pausinger “Rotwild”
Rik Wouters “Young Deer”
Hendrik Gerrit ten Cate “Deer under Beech Trees in Winter”
Bruno Liljefors “Resting Fox”
Jacques-Laurent Agasse “Study of a Fox”
Samuel Howitt “Canis Lupus, or Gray Wolf”
John William Waterhouse “A Sketch of a Bear”
Floris Verster “Rabbit”
Sir Hubert von Herkomer “Woodland scene with rabbits”
David de Coninck “Two Rabbits”
François Desportes “Rabbits”
Hans Hoffmann “Red Squirrel”
The Wildlife Collection
A gathered selection of my favorite vintage wildlife paintings of jungle animals and african wildlife art available online and in the public domain.
Gangaram Chintaman Tambat “Elephant”
George Antoine Prosper Marilhat “Sitting Loaded Camel”
Antoine-Louis Barye “Bison Lying Down”
Albert Bierstadt “Buffalo in a Sandstorm”
George Stubbs “Zebra”
Antoine-Louis Barye “Tiger in Repose”
For more information on artwork in the Public Domain, how this animal art can be used, best practices for printing these free artwork downloads and my personal thoughts on the public domain artwork, please read the information at the bottom of my main gallery page HERE.
Please note that this is my personal curated collection of vintage animal paintings and only the merest drop in the bucket of what is available in the public domain. If you want to hunt for your own free printable vintage artwork in the public domain, you can find my list of favorite sources here!
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