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Portrait of Thomas Bulwer

Gerard van Soest · 1654

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Palette

Soot
 47% of the image
Black · text contrast 16.7:1
Sepia
 46% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.2:1
Raw umber
 2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.8:1
Smoke
 2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.4:1
Mushroom
 2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.6:1
Tan
 1% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.9:1

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
Gerard van Soest
Date
1654
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
101.7 × 86.7 cm (40 1/16 × 34 1/8 in.); Framed: 113.4 × 97.2 × 6.4 cm (44 5/8 × 38 1/4 × 2 1/2 in.)
Place
Holland
Period
17th century
Themes
Portraits
Main colour
Brown · lightness 21, colourfulness 8

Art Institute of Chicago, Alexander A. McKay Fund. 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

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