Portrait of a man, half-length, turned slightly to right and looking left, and wearing a high lace collar, sash and armour with gold rivets; the sitter's hair falls in to ringlets. Features stippled in sanguine and brown with some dark grey, black for the eyes with touches of white, on a pale carnation ground; hair in brown wash, hatched and lined with darker colour and the lights in pale gouache; collar and sash in pale brown wash, touched with greys and with the lights in white; armour in blue grey washes, hatched over with darker colours and with the rivets in yellow over thick white; background a pale brown wash, thickly and opaquely hatched in gummed dark grey, lightening to the right of the figure; on vellum put down on pasteboard.

Frame: Seventeenth(?)-century silver locket, convex back, the sides deeply channelled and rising to the bezel, which holds the flat glass by its bevelled edges; the hanger in round wire soldered onto a central lug, which is supported by twin scrolls of leaf ornament roughly cut from sheet metal and chased; within, the miniature is held by a late gilt strip around the margin.