Benjamin
Prins
The Life and Art of Benjamin Prins Benjamin Liepman Prins was a Dutch genre artist born in Arnhem, the Netherlands. He began his formal art education at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, studying under Professor August Allebé for five years starting around 1877. His academic journey …
A portrait built from Benjamin Prins's own colours
Every 9 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.