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John Thomlinson and His Family

Arthur Devis · 1745

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Palette

Walnut
 53% of the image
Brown · text contrast 11.3:1
Dark chocolate
 28% of the image
Black · text contrast 17.2:1
Tan
 7% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.3:1
Raw umber
 7% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.1:1
Stone
 2% of the image
Green · text contrast 5.8:1
Smoke
 1% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.2:1

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
Arthur Devis
Date
1745
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
60.9 × 101.9 cm (24 × 40 1/8 in.); Framed: 81.3 × 122 × 11.5 cm (32 × 48 × 4 1/2 in.)
Place
England
Period
18th century
Themes
Portraits · Interiors · Mothers and children · Reading and letters
Main colour
Brown · lightness 25, colourfulness 19

Art Institute of Chicago, Joseph and Helen Regenstein Foundation Fund. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-31); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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