Portrait of a man, turned slightly to left and looking to front; the sitter is wearing a patterned lace neckcloth. Features in brown, sanguine and grey with some blue shadowing, diagonally hatched across the features and heavily impasted with coloured gouache and with white for the lights; touches of white and brownish yellow in the eyes and a white high spot on the tip of the nose; all on a pale carnation ground; hair in brown wash, heavily hatched with darker colour and with the lights in grey gouache, also over the carnation; cravat in white shaded with grey; costume in washes of brown-yellow and dark brown; background a plain dark brown wash; on vellum put down on pasteboard.

Frame: Recent twentieth-century brass (?)-gilt oval locket, the convex back bent over in a sharp arris to meet the straight sides (imitating a seventeenth-century type with closing front cover), which hold the bevelled edge of the flat glass in a bezel; the hanger of flat wire, flanked by two separate spirals in tapering flat wire of four turns.