Portrait of a man, head and shoulders, turned slightly to right and looking to front, his hair long. Features firmly hatched in brown and sanguine, with some blue-grey blended in for the shadow and a little white heightening in the eyes and lips, on a pale carnation ground; hair in brown wash with some darker colour and the lights in gouache; costume in opaque washes, modelled in darker colour and the lights in pale gouache; background to the left a plain brown wash, to the right a sky and landscape in opaque washes; on vellum put down on pasteboard.

Frame: A slightly unconventional seventeenth-century silver-gilt locket, or possibly a nineteenth-century imitation of the type; a shallowly convex back, the sides with a broad deep channel flaring to the bezel, which holds the convex bevelled glass; the hanger, which is set on the arris of the junction between the back and channelled sides, of D-section, bifurcates into reverse turns before beginning tapering spirals of five turns.