joseph
blackburn
The Weaver of Silks and Shadows In the golden age of colonial portraiture, few hands possessed the delicate precision required to capture the ephemeral shimmer of a silk gown or the intricate lace of a gentleman’s cravat quite like Joseph Blackburn. An itinerant master whose …
A portrait built from joseph blackburn's own colours
Every 11 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.