A Military Officer

Joseph Blackburn · 1756

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Dark chocolate
75% of the image
Brown · text contrast 15.0:1

Dark ochre
7% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.9:1

Pale gold
6% of the image
Yellow · text contrast 11.5:1

Fire red
5% of the image
Red · text contrast 4.8:1

Tan
4% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.9:1

Rust
2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.8:1

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

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Artist: Joseph Blackburn
1697–1812
Date: 1756
Type: Painting
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: overall: 77.5 x 63.6 cm (30 1/2 x 25 1/16 in.)
Place: British
Period: 18th century
Main colour: Brown · lightness 25, colourfulness 23

National Gallery of Art, Washington, Andrew W. Mellon Collection. Museum record. Public domain. United States: National Gallery of Art marks it open access (published_images.openaccess = 1: public domain, CC0). Europe: Artist died 1812: public domain in the EU since 1 January 1883. Last checked 2026-10-31 (published_images.openaccess = 1: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules

A Military Officer

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