Portrait of a man, head and shoulders, head turned slightly to left and looking to front; the sitter is wearing a long wig, armour and a neckcloth. Features stippled in grey and sanguine with brown and blue, and with white heightening in the eyes, on a pale carnation ground; hair in brown wash, hatched and stippled with darker brown and black, and with the lights in gouache, over the carnation; cravat in white and grey over an off-white wash; armour washed and hatched in opaque greys and with touches of blue, with the highlights in white and the studs in metallic gold; background a dense brown wash; on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book.

Frame: Seventeenth- or perhaps eighteenth-century oval silver-gilt locket; the back convex (possibly regilded) and engraved elaborately with a symmetrical pattern of acanthus and other foliar ornament issuing from a triangle at the base of the hanger in an apparently eighteenth-century manner; the channelled sides rise to the bezel, which has been replaced with a gold rim that holds the edges of the flat glass; the hanger of D-section, channelled down the middle, bifurcates and turns back into two small loops before beginning diminishing spirals of five turns. Scratched on the back in a nineteenth-century hand: Lord / Maynard.