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The Masters · Chromatic Profile

john
ballantyne

1815 — 1897 · 19th Century

John Ballantyne (1815–1897): A Highland Visionary John Ballantyne, a name perhaps less familiar than some of his contemporaries within the grand narratives of 19th-century British art, nevertheless represents a significant and quietly powerful voice in Scottish landscape painting. Born in Kelso, Roxburghshire, in 1815, into …

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john ballantyne
The Palette Genome

A portrait built from john ballantyne'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.

← 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