David Garrick as King Lear

Richard Westall · c. 1815

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Lamp black
55% of the image
Black · text contrast 19.3:1

Umber
14% of the image
Brown · text contrast 11.1:1

Dark chocolate
13% of the image
Black · text contrast 16.1:1

Bronze
11% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.7:1

Tan
5% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.9:1

Burnt sienna
2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.5:1

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

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Artist: Richard Westall
Date: c. 1815
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 73 × 59.7 cm (28 3/4 × 23 1/2 in.); Framed: 93.4 × 79.4 × 8.9 cm (36 3/4 × 31 1/4 × 3 1/2 in.)
Place: United Kingdom
Period: 19th century
Themes: Portraits · Flowers
Main colour: Black · lightness 16, colourfulness 14

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Richard L. Feigen. 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

David Garrick as King Lear

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