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John Van der Wall

Thomas Hudson · c. 1745

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Palette

Dark chocolate
 71% of the image
Black · text contrast 17.6:1
Burnt sienna
 9% of the image
Red · text contrast 10.1:1
Caramel
 9% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.9:1
Cinnamon
 7% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.4:1
Copper
 2% of the image
Orange · text contrast 4.7:1
Sand
 2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.3:1

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
Thomas Hudson
Date
c. 1745
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
127.3 × 101.9 cm (50 1/8 × 40 1/8 in.); Framed: 148 × 122.3 × 6.4 cm (58 1/4 × 48 1/8 × 2 1/2 in.)
Place
England
Period
18th century
Themes
Portraits
Main colour
Black · lightness 18, colourfulness 19

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Reed Armstrong. 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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