The Masters · Chromatic Profile

William
Grimaldi

1751 — 1830 · Early Modern

The Delicate Art of Miniature Portraiture In the intimate, luminous world of eighteenth-century British portraiture, few names evoke the exquisite precision and aristocratic elegance of William Grimaldi. Born in the London parish of Shoreditch in 1751, Grimaldi was far more than a mere craftsman; he …

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William Grimaldi
The Palette Genome

A portrait built from William Grimaldi'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