Martha
'Markie' Custis Williams
A Life Recorded in Ink and Observation To understand Martha 'Markie' Custis Williams, one must look past the romanticized notions of nineteenth-century socialites and focus on the raw data of her existence. Born in 1831 in Georgetown, United States of America, she was a woman …
A portrait built from Martha 'Markie' Custis Williams's own colours
Every 1 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.