Mrs. George Lingen

Thomas Sully · 1842

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Palette

Dark chocolate
29% of the image
Black · text contrast 16.5:1

Raw umber
27% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.5:1

Iron
26% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.7:1

Fawn
12% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.7:1

Bronze
5% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.5:1

Olive brown
2% of the image
Green · text contrast 6.1:1

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

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Artist: Thomas Sully
American, 1783–1872
Date: 1842
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: Oval: 71.8 × 62.9 cm (28 1/2 × 24 3/4 in.)
Place: United States
Period: 19th century
Main colour: Brown · lightness 31, colourfulness 16

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 (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules

Mrs. George Lingen

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