Boy of Hallett Family with Lamb

Artist unknown · 1766–76

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Palette

Lamp black
45% of the image
Black · text contrast 19.4:1

Bistre
42% of the image
Brown · text contrast 15.2:1

Stone
6% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.0:1

Olive brown
3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.9:1

Green earth
3% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.3:1

Rust
1% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.3:1

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: Artist unknown
Date: 1766–76
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 76.5 × 64.5 cm (30 3/16 × 25 3/8 in.)
Place: United States
Period: 18th century
Main colour: Brown · lightness 14, colourfulness 13

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Robert Allerton. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-11-01); image released under CC0. Licence rules

Boy of Hallett Family with Lamb

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