Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, and Edward VI

English · 1597

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Sepia
70% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.0:1

Chestnut
9% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.8:1

Taupe
6% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.3:1

Soot
6% of the image
Black · text contrast 16.9:1

Raw umber
6% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.3:1

Fawn
3% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.4:1

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: English
Date: 1597
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on panel
Size: 63 × 78 cm (24 3/4 × 30 11/16 in.); Framed: 79.6 × 94.3 × 8.9 cm (31 3/8 × 37 1/8 × 3 1/2 in.)
Place: England
Period: 16th century
Themes: Portraits
Main colour: Brown · lightness 30, colourfulness 13

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Kate S. Buckingham. 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

Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, and Edward VI

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