Portrait of a woman, three-quarter length, seated and turned to front, resting her right hand on her knee; in the left background is a column an a vase containing a plant. Features in soft and tentative strokes of brown, with black in the eyes and a white highlight, on a very pale carnation ground; hair in pale brown wash, hatched and lined, and generally worked over in darker colour with some grey gouache for the lights; chemise in pale grey wash, modelled in grey and thick white; dress in dark pink wash, worked over in gummy dark red and with the lights in pink-grey gouache; the mantle in blue wash, modelled in darker colour and with the lights in pale grey; curtain in dark orange-brown over orange wash; architecture in pink-grey gouache and dark grey over a pale brown wash; plant in green and dark brown with touches of purple and white for the flowers; a gold marginal strip; on vellum put down on pasteboard.

Frame: Black stained and polished fruitwood veneer over oak; the joints mitred at the front and halved at the back; a broad composite bolection moulding; oak backboard and simple brass ring screw-in hanger. Inscribed on the backboard in black paint: 689E [truncated?]. A nearly illegible early ink inscription: possibly P[ ... Anne[ ... ]/ Gr[ ... ]; and on an old paper label, in ink: C or possibly E, and a flourish in graphite.