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A work made of oil on canvas.

John Newton

Thomas Hudson · c. 1757–60

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Palette

Soot
 35% of the image
Black · text contrast 16.1:1
Graphite
 22% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.0:1
Smoke
 19% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.8:1
Pearl grey
 10% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 13.0:1
Pewter
 10% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.4:1
Silver
 4% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.6:1

Colours measured by this site from the museum image (k-means in CIELAB). Names are the nearest in our own list and describe how the colour looks, not the pigment. Text on each chip uses whichever of black or white contrasts more (WCAG ratio shown). How

Details

Artist
Thomas Hudson
Date
c. 1757–60
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
127 × 101.6 cm (50 × 40 in.); Framed: 145.5 × 120.3 × 6.4 cm (57 1/4 × 47 3/8 × 2 1/2 in.)
Place
England
Period
18th century
Themes
Portraits
Main colour
Grey · lightness 36, colourfulness 0

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Arthur B. Logan. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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