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Elijah Boardman by Ralph Earl

Elijah Boardman

Ralph Earl · 1789

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Palette

Sepia
 53% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.4:1
Soot
 23% of the image
Black · text contrast 16.7:1
Fawn
 9% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.2:1
Cinnamon
 6% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.8:1
Bronze
 6% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.8:1
Silver
 3% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.0:1

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
Ralph Earl
American, Worcester County, Massachusetts 1751–1801 Bolton, Connecticut
Date
1789
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
83 x 51 in. (210.8 x 129.5 cm)
Place
American
Period
18th century
Themes
Portraits
Main colour
Brown · lightness 31, colourfulness 16

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bequest of Susan W. Tyler, 1979. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's isPublicDomain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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