The Masters · Chromatic Profile

Frank
Brooks

1854 — 1937 · 19th Century

The Portraitist of the Imperial Durbar Frank Brooks occupies a specific, narrow niche in the history of British painting. He was not a theorist or a revolutionary, but a highly skilled observer of status and identity. His work carries the weight of a specific era, …

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Frank Brooks
The Palette Genome

A portrait built from Frank Brooks's own colours

Every 4 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.

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

Four-Colour Decomposition
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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.

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Reading the Genome

The signature, in numbers