Thomas
Gainsborough
A Suffolk Beginning: The Early Life and Artistic Awakening Thomas Gainsborough, en af Storbritanniens mest elskede kunstnere, begyndte sin historie ikke i et pompøst akademi eller en pulserende metropol, men i den rolige markedsby Sudbury i Suffolk. Født i 1727 som den yngste søn af …
A portrait built from Thomas Gainsborough's own colours
Every 100 approved work contributes its dominant tone to a single flowing field. Sorted along the hue wheel, the strip reads as a smooth spectrum. Click any band to reveal its full four-colour palette.
Bands follow the hue wheel; visually identical tones are merged.
Every painting, placed on the hue wheel
Each dot is a work — its angle set by hue, its distance from the centre by saturation. Hover a dot to see the painting.
The signature, in numbers
Where the colour came from
Up to 24 paintings representing the most frequent palette tones — each shown with its dominant colours.