Joseph Gerrish

John Singleton Copley · 1770

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Palette

Dark chocolate
91% of the image
Black · text contrast 18.1:1

Bistre
3% of the image
Black · text contrast 16.2:1

Coffee
2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 12.8:1

Raw umber
1% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.5:1

Umber
1% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.5:1

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

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: 1770
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 82.6 × 63.5 cm (32 1/2 × 25 in.)
Place: United States
Period: 18th century
Themes: Portraits
Main colour: Black · lightness 9, colourfulness 10

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of the Estate of Adela Barrett. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-11-02); image released under CC0. Licence rules