Palette
A thin board or tablet, usually oval or oblong, for laying out and mixing paint. Traditionally wooden and with a hole for the thumb, they can come in almost any shape or size and be made from any type of non-absorbent material such as ceramic, glass or marble. The term is also used to refer to the range of colours used by an artist in a painting.
Gerlach Flicke; Henry Strangwish (Strangways)
by Gerlach Flicke
1554
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Mary Beale
by Mary Beale
circa 1666
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Edward Collier
by Edward Collier
1683
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Michael Dahl
by Michael Dahl
1691
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
by Sir Joshua Reynolds
circa 1747-1749
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Agostino Carlini; Francesco Bartolozzi; Giovanni Battista Cipriani
by John Francis Rigaud
1777
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Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg
by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg
1805-1810
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George Arnald
by George Arnald
1831
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Emilia Francis (née Strong), Lady Dilke
by Pauline, Lady Trevelyan (née Jermyn), and Laura Capel Lofft (later Lady Trevelyan)
circa 1864
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Ernest Procter; Dod Procter
by Felix H. Man
1934
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Sir Matthew Smith
by Lola Walker (Lola Marsden)
6 April 1951
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Duncan Grant
by Jane Bown
1978
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