Theophilia Gwatkin

Sir Joshua Reynolds · 1776–81

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Palette

Bistre
50% of the image
Black · text contrast 14.4:1

Soot
25% of the image
Black · text contrast 16.5:1

Tan
10% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.0:1

Raw umber
8% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.8:1

Sepia
4% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.6:1

Iron
2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.3:1

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: Sir Joshua Reynolds
Date: 1776–81
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 73.7 × 61 cm (29 × 24 in.); Framed: 96.6 × 84.7 × 7 cm (38 × 33 3/8 × 2 3/4 in.)
Place: England
Period: 18th century
Themes: Portraits
Main colour: Black · lightness 22, colourfulness 12

Art Institute of Chicago, Bequest of Betty McNabb Rich. 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

Theophilia Gwatkin

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