Portrait of a man, three-quarter length, standing, turned slightly to right and looking to front; the sitter is wearing a suit of armour, neckcloth of patterned lace and is holding a baton in his right hand; on the left is a helmet with plumes and a dog at the bottom of the composition; in the right background is a dsitant view of a battle. Features hatched and stippled in brown, with some black and white highlights in the eyes, on a pale yellowish carnation ground; hair in pale brown wash, hatched and lined with dark brown and black and with the lights in pale ochreous gouache; cravat in pale grey wash, modelled in brown and with the lights in white; armour worked in dark brown over grey wash, the lights in white and pale grey and the studs in ochre; helmet plume in dark red over a light red wash; trousers similarly in red over a light red wash; landscape in washes of blue, white and grey gouache, the trees in browns and some dark green with grey over the brown wash; dog in brown and white over pale brown wash; 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.