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John Singleton Copley · 1771

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Palette

Lamp black
81% of the image
Black · text contrast 18.1:1

Taupe
7% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.6:1

Raw umber
6% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.0:1

Cinnamon
4% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.9:1

Biscuit
1% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 10.0:1

Tan
1% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.0:1

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
American, Boston, Massachusetts 1738–1815 London
Date: 1771
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 49 1/2 x 40 in. (125.7 x 101.6 cm)
Place: American
Period: 18th century
Themes: Portraits
Main colour: Black · lightness 15, colourfulness 6

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Bayard Verplanck, 1949. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's isPublicDomain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules