John Hoppner occupies the comfortable middle of the value scale, avoiding both extremes to hold the eye in a sustained middle grey. Warmth dominates - the palette of John Hoppner leans heavily on the yellow-orange-red arc of the colour wheel. The absence of saturated colour is itself an expressive choice: this is a palette of restraint and atmosphere. #E1C392 functions as the palette's exclamation mark: highest chroma, lowest percentage (6.9%). The full value range is 64 units: broad enough to build convincing three-dimensional form. The palette is recognisably John Hoppner's own: particular in its temperature, chroma, and the economy of its brightest note.