Portrait, head and shoulders, turned slightly to right and looking to front; wearing a high collar and sash over his right shoulder. Features in very fine blended strokes of brown and sanguine, with touches of grey in the shadows, and with black with white spots in the eyes, on a pale creamy carnation ground; hair in brown wash, lined with darker colour and with ochre lights; collar in white over pale grey wash; armour in dark grey wash, modelled in black with lights in pale grey and ochre for the studs; costume in red, grey and ochre on a yellow wash; landscape background washed and hatched in opaque browns, blues and greys over the vellum; on vellum put down on pasteboard (a playing card with parts of five diamonds).

Frame: Late nineteenth-century copper-gilt locket with push-fit rounded front forming a rebate to hold the slightly convex glass; slightly convex back held in straight sides edged with continuous round wire, twisted at the top to form the hanger.