Pieter
Borselaer
Pieter Borselaer: A Portraitist of Quiet Melancholy Pieter Borsseler (1633/1634 Middelburg – in or after 1687, Middelburg) stands as a significant figure within the Anglo-Dutch artistic landscape of the mid-seventeenth century. Born in Middelburg, Netherlands, he embarked on his artistic journey under the tutelage of …
A portrait built from Pieter Borselaer's own colours
Every 1 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.
Bands follow the hue wheel; visually identical tones are merged.
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.
The signature, in numbers
Where the colour came from
Up to 24 paintings representing the most frequent palette tones — each shown with its dominant colours.
