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Portrait of a light-skinned man in a long white wig and red-orange coat, holding a folded piece of paper and standing next to a desk, a large sailing ship off his left shoulder.

Richard Bill

John Smibert · 1733

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Palette

Bistre
 48% of the image
Brown · text contrast 13.7:1
Taupe
 25% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.9:1
Burnt sienna
 11% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.2:1
Mahogany
 9% of the image
Brown · text contrast 12.8:1
Tan
 5% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.8:1
Putty
 2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.4:1

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
John Smibert
Date
1733
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
127.6 × 102.2 cm (50 1/4 × 40 1/4 in.)
Place
Boston
Period
18th century
Themes
Portraits
Main colour
Brown · lightness 29, colourfulness 20

Art Institute of Chicago, Friends of American Art Collection. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-30); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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