The Masters · Chromatic Profile

Jan
van der Vaart

1653 — 1721 · Early Modern

The Dutch Hand in London Born in the bustling streets of Haarlem, Netherlands, Jan van der Vaart began his life's work under the watchful eye of Thomas Wijck. This early training laid the foundation for a career that would eventually find its true home across …

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Jan van der Vaart
The Palette Genome

A portrait built from Jan van der Vaart'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.

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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