Guillim
Scrots
The Enigmatic Master of the Tudor Court In the grand, shifting tapestry of the sixteenth century, few figures loom as mysteriously yet brilliantly as Guillim Scrots. A painter whose very name seems to flicker between various spellings—Scrotes, Stretes, or William—he emerged from the shadows of …
A portrait built from Guillim Scrots's own colours
Every 6 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.