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Dr. Joseph Klapp

Thomas Sully · 1814

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Palette

Lamp black
 75% of the image
Black · text contrast 17.8:1
Dark olive
 18% of the image
Brown · text contrast 12.5:1
Apricot
 3% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.2:1
Chestnut
 1% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.9:1
Caramel
 1% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.5:1
Linen
 1% of the image
Green · text contrast 13.1:1

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

Details

Artist
Thomas Sully
American, born England, 1783–1872
Date
1814
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
91.4 × 71.1 cm (36 × 28 in.)
Place
Philadelphia
Period
19th century
Themes
Portraits
Main colour
Black · lightness 14, colourfulness 12

Art Institute of Chicago, Purchased with funds provided by Annie Swan Coburn to the Mr. and Mrs. Lewis L. Coburn Memorial 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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