john
barker
John Barker (1824–1904): Capturing Rural Scotland and Everyday Life John Barker, born in Coventry in 1824, was a British painter whose prolific output spanned the Victorian era, establishing him as a significant figure in sentimental genre painting and Scottish landscape art. His artistic journey began …
A portrait built from john barker'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.
