To refuse to pay for this commission?

Business is business. Find somewhere to leave her a bad review.

My son is a professional artist and he says she is ridiculous and unprofessional. He wouldn't sell a single painting if he did that.

Op, please set up a rival pet portrait business. I would pay (not much admittedly!) for a terrible/ genius rendering of my dog with a big scrawl over it by you.

I love your art. Can I have a cat portrait please?

How bizarre! It’s like something off little Britain or some weird comedy sketch!!

Definitely don’t pay unless she can paint over it or something- you clearly said not to do big signature. Shame you didn’t do written agreement.

She sounds like a right egotist- doesn’t realise people are buying the art for the art & not the artist! What poor self awareness!

FrJackHackett! I'm getting adverts for underpants now! This thread just keeps on giving.

It's very simple: I commissioned you to paint a picture of Fido without your usual signature across the painting. That was the contract. You have put your usual signature across the painting of Fido. You have not kept to the terms of the contract therefore I will not accept the painting and will not pay for it.

Your sister is ignoring legitimate feedback and losing business as a result.

She clearly thinks she's famous and her signature is worth more to people than the actual subjects she's been asked to paint.. It's not.

I wouldn't pay her. You said she wouldn't do it, she did it anyway, I would 100% not pay or accept the painting with a signature across it.

Your pictures, otoh, OP, are hilarious. Maybe you should mock up a few more and whack them on your social media pages. That should piss off your sister and get her to rethink.

She's got an interesting take on the copyright watermark on photos hasn't she? Does she realise that when you buy a print of a photo from the photographer they don't reproduce the watermark on the face of it?

No no way would I pay. She hasn’t fulfilled the brief.

Until customers stand up to her and refuse to pay she won’t stop this stupid practice.

Pay the £200, don't display it, arrange someone else to paint your dog and put that painting in pride of place. When she notices, say, "I would much rather have had yours, but you spoiled it with the signature even though you agreed not to, so I couldn't use it."

Not everyone has £200 to waste.

I wouldn't pay her for something she specifically agreed not to do.

don’t pay. Don’t accept the painting and if she threatens legal and there’s nothing in writing then just deny ever asking. It’ll be up to her to prove a contract existed 🤷🏼‍♀️

I’m dying to see her picture!
and I LOVE yours op!
my dad sold paintings and he would say that the more rubbish the artist the bigger the signature. Don’t know if you should mention that though!
and imho. The agreement was no signature, so that’s what you should get.

No payment as she didn’t produce what was agreed.

I really hope you don’t pay unless she paints over it. You’d be a mug else.

Look around for another artist she isnt going to give you what you want

How very bizarre doing that 😶

… and like fuck would I charge my sister for a painting of her dog, especially if I’d offered and pushed for her to accept it.

@MikStone your sister has a staggering ego, tell her to paint over the signature or paint over the entire canvas, you’re not going to waste £200 on her ego.

"well sister I agreed to pay £200 for a picture of my dog. As I can't see a 3rd of it due to your crappy signature I'll only be paying £133. You want full price, give me a whole dog".

This thread! 😆 Your pictures are so funny @MikStone The dachshund! And the pic with the green dog (paint my dog?) 😆

Yeah, as has been said, you shouldn't pay if a third of the painting is her chuffing signature!

To be honest I'm a bit disappointed in the mumnset posse!

They have more investigation skills than GCHQ and MI5/6 combined and stilll no one has found a link to OP's sister's Facebook page!!

Is her name Joan Hancock?

If you’re taking orders please could I have a poodle?

I sell art.

Your sister has the right to run her business how she wants to, but she is taking the piss. It sounds like she knew very well what the conditions of the commission were, know it was a risky one to take on, and should have turned it down. However, she wanted the money, and rather than deliver work to the agreed terms, she only made a part concession to you wishes. She should have told you her intention in advance.....but she knew if she did......you wouldn't give her the commission.

It's sly and if she carries on like that with other buyers, she will seriously piss them off and start getting bad reviews on her social media. It's really not a good sign of character.

Also - the size of her signature indicates a sizeable ego. Some artists do slap on a digital watermark on their work to try and prevent people from stealing it. Sadly this does happen, and even a local post office to me had stolen a well known local artists' work and started to print and sell it on cheap canvases. Otherwise, she seems more concerned about establishing a brand identity (and cannot reply on the uniqueness of the work to do that for her), than she is about how this affects the work itself.