Frederick
Buck
The Life and Career of Frederick Buck Frederick Buck lived through the shifting tides of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Born in Cork, Ireland, in 1771, he spent his working life focused on the small, intimate scale of the miniature portrait. While other …
A portrait built from Frederick Buck's own colours
Every 2 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.