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A work made of oil on canvas.

Sir Thomas Rumbold, Bt.

Sir Joshua Reynolds · 1788

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Palette

Dark chocolate
 56% of the image
Black · text contrast 17.5:1
Burnt sienna
 16% of the image
Brown · text contrast 11.5:1
Bronze
 12% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.3:1
Mahogany
 9% of the image
Brown · text contrast 15.1:1
Olive brown
 6% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.6:1
Dark ochre
 2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.8:1

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
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Date
1788
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
126.7 × 101.3 cm (49 7/8 × 39 7/8 in.); Framed: 149 × 123.2 × 8.3 cm (58 5/8 × 48 1/2 × 3 1/4 in.)
Place
England
Period
18th century
Themes
Portraits · Interiors · Reading and letters
Main colour
Brown · lightness 17, colourfulness 21

Art Institute of Chicago, A. A. Munger 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

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