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william
yellowlees

1796 — 1855 · 19th Century

William Yellowlees: The Little Raeburn and the Dawn of Victorian Portraiture William Yellowlees, a name perhaps less familiar than those of his contemporaries, nevertheless holds a significant place in the history of 19th-century British art. Born in Mellerstain, Berwickshire, in 1796, Yellowlees’s career unfolded against …

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william yellowlees
The Palette Genome

A portrait built from william yellowlees's own colours

Every 7 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.

← Cool · Shadow Warm · Earth Gold · Light →

Bands follow the hue wheel; visually identical tones are merged.

Four-Colour Decomposition
The Chromatic Knot

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.

0° Red 90° Yellow 180° Cyan 270° Blue saturation →
Reading the Genome

The signature, in numbers