Daniel Hubbard

John Singleton Copley · 1764

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Palette

Soot
59% of the image
Black · text contrast 16.1:1

Sepia
21% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.1:1

Smoke
8% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.3:1

Ash
8% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.6:1

Bone white
4% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 14.5:1

Putty
1% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.3:1

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

Details

Artist: John Singleton Copley
Date: 1764
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 127.2 × 100.8 cm (50 1/8 × 39 11/16 in.)
Place: England
Period: 18th century
Themes: Portraits
Main colour: Black · lightness 26, colourfulness 6

Art Institute of Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago Purchase Fund. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-31); image released under CC0. Licence rules