Gerard
van Spaendonck
Gerard van Spaendonck: A Life in Bloom Early Life and Education Born: 1746 in Tilburg, Netherlands. Van Spaendonck came from an artistic family; his younger brother, Cornelis van Spaendonck, also became a successful painter. In the 1760s, he began his formal training with decorative painter …
A portrait built from Gerard van Spaendonck's own colours
Every 3 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.
