Painted idol
Dailey Danique
1 painting in the series ▪ publishes as @daileydanique
Photograph published by @daileydanique on Instagram ▪ source
See the workDailey is one of the few women in this series I have actually stood in front of. Almost every other subject arrives as a photograph and stays one.
Who is Dailey Danique?
Dailey Danique is a Dutch content creator. Her work reaches her audience through her own channels, with Instagram as her main public platform.
In March 2023 she appeared as a participant in the SBS6 programme Lang Leve de Liefde. In December 2025 she was one of nine participants in Dames in de Dop: in 't Gooi, the second Prime Video season of the etiquette series, in which she set out to learn the finer points of etiquette.
This summary is put together from publicly available sources and has not been checked with her. If something here is wrong or she would rather it were not here, write to the studio and it is corrected or removed.
Where you know her from
- 2023Lang Leve de Liefde (participant)SBS6
- 2025Dames in de Dop: in 't Gooi (participant, season 2)Prime Video
Painting Dailey Danique in the studio
Dailey (Illustrated) is a painting about lines that already exist, which is a harder problem than inventing them. Get a line wrong where the body turns and the whole thing sits on top of her like a sticker instead of following the form underneath. That is where the weeks went, and it is the only part of this painting I would want you to look at twice.
Days at a time over several weeks, with long stretches of nothing in between. I do not sketch and I have no picture in my head of where a canvas is going. It stopped when I was finished with it.
Dailey Danique paintings: what exists
Oil on stretched canvas, 100 x 80 cm, signed, one of one, from Painted Idols -- a series of oil portraits of women whose own image is their work. A hand-signed print exists in a small edition that is never reprinted; the painting itself stays one of a kind. The canvas was painted by hand from that photograph; what it became is the painter's doing, not hers.
What is still available, and at what price, is on the cards below.
“Something stops me. Then I have to deal with it.”
Works featuring Dailey Danique
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IllustratedDailey
100 × 80 cm
€950
IllustratedDailey: signed print on paper
100 × 80 cm
€35
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Questions about the paintings of Dailey Danique
Is a painting of Dailey Danique for sale?
Yes. The one original painting of Dailey Danique, Dailey (Illustrated), is still available. It is one of one and will not be painted again.
How big are the paintings of Dailey Danique?
Dailey (Illustrated) is 100 × 80 cm. The signed prints are 100 × 80 cm.
Are there prints of the paintings of Dailey Danique?
Yes. Dailey (Illustrated) has a hand-signed print on paper, in an edition of 50: printed once, never reprinted.
Did Dailey Danique pose for these paintings?
No. They are painted from photographs that Dailey Danique published herself. She did not sit for them, and what the canvases became is the painter’s doing, not hers.
