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Cornelius Allerton

Portrait of man, black coat, white collar, hand in book.

Cornelius Allerton

Ammi Phillips · 1821–22

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Palette

Smoke
47% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.8:1

Soot
33% of the image
Black · text contrast 16.5:1

Mushroom
9% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.9:1

Bronze
5% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.3:1

Graphite
3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 11.1:1

Silver
3% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.6:1

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: Ammi Phillips
Date: 1821–22
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 83.8 × 69.9 cm (33 × 27 1/2 in.)
Place: New York
Period: 19th century
Themes: Portraits
Main colour: Grey · lightness 32, colourfulness 6

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Robert Allerton. 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