A light-skinned woman in a long, shiny white dress sits at a desk reading a book. The book is propped on a large red pillow. Her head is propped in her hand.

Isabella Wolff

Sir Thomas Lawrence · 1803–15

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Walnut
42% of the image
Brown · text contrast 12.7:1

Taupe
23% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.4:1

Putty
20% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.4:1

Cinnamon
6% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.6:1

Dark chocolate
6% of the image
Black · text contrast 16.8:1

Chestnut
3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.0:1

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 Thomas Lawrence
Date: 1803–15
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 128.2 × 102.4 cm (50 1/2 × 40 5/16 in.); Framed: 156.2 × 130.5 cm (61 1/2 × 51 3/8 in.)
Place: England
Period: 19th century
Themes: Portraits · Flowers · Reading and letters
Main colour: Brown · lightness 38, colourfulness 20

Art Institute of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Kimball Collection. 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

Isabella Wolff

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