Hercules
Seghers
Hercules Seghers: A Life in Landscape and Print Born: Haarlem, Netherlands (c. 1590) Died: c. 1638 Early Life and Training Hercules Pieterszoon Seghers was born in Haarlem, the son of a Mennonite cloth merchant originally from Flanders. In 1596, his family moved to Amsterdam. He …
A portrait built from Hercules Seghers'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.
