George Stubbs works in the upper reaches of the value scale, creating an atmosphere of brightness and expansiveness. George Stubbs tilts toward cool - blues and silver-greys carry the structural weight. Chroma is kept low across all colours, producing the soft, enveloping quality that characterises tonal painting. The saturated accent, #D3B47D, registers at 2.9% - sparse enough to feel like a deliberate surprise. The full value range is 63 units: broad enough to build convincing three-dimensional form. High luminosity and cool temperature suggest the plein-air condition: unfiltered daylight and open sky. This is palette 1 of George Stubbs's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.