Portrait of a Quaker

Adolf Ulrik Wertmüller · 1795

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Soot
66% of the image
Black · text contrast 16.1:1

Olive brown
19% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.8:1

Honey
7% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.4:1

Amber
4% of the image
Orange · text contrast 7.4:1

Dark ochre
2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.5:1

Copper
2% of the image
Orange · text contrast 4.6:1

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: Adolf Ulrik Wertmüller
1751–1811
Date: 1795
Type: Painting
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: overall: 71.2 x 56.1 cm (28 1/16 x 22 1/16 in.)
Place: Swedish
Period: 18th century
Themes: Portraits
Main colour: Black · lightness 24, colourfulness 18

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 1811: public domain in the EU since 1 January 1882. Last checked 2026-10-31 (published_images.openaccess = 1: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules

Portrait of a Quaker

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