William Dyce is high in key: pale, luminous, and filled with optical air. William Dyce keeps warm and cool in parity, a balance that lends the work a perceptual shimmer. All colours lean toward grey, building depth through value rather than colour punch. At 4.4%, #AD7F4F carries the palette's sharpest chromatic charge: an accent that earns its place precisely because it is withheld. At 62 units of value range, the palette has the tonal breadth to sustain complex spatial readings. Palette 1 sits within the larger chromatic argument that William Dyce's complete body of work advances.