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A work made of oil on canvas.

Portrait of the Honorable George Canning, M.P.

Sir Thomas Lawrence · c. 1822

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Palette

Soot
42% of the image
Black · text contrast 16.7:1
Slate
35% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.9:1
Graphite
16% of the image
Black · text contrast 11.7:1
Silver
2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.9:1
Pearl grey
2% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 14.2:1
Ash
2% 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
Sir Thomas Lawrence
Date
c. 1822
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
91.4 × 71.1 cm (36 × 28 in.); Framed: 108.6 × 90.2 × 7 cm (42 3/4 × 35 1/2 × 2 3/4 in.)
Place
England
Period
19th century
Themes
Portraits · Interiors
Main colour
Black · lightness 27, colourfulness 0

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Denison B. Hull. 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

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