Portrait of a young boy, head and shoulders, turned to left, nearly in profile, looking to right and wearing a neckcloth tied in a bow. Features in pale brown hatches with touches of white in the eyes, some touches of black and some blue shading, on a pale creamy carnation ground; hair in pale brown wash, lined and hatched in darker colour and with the lights in greyish-ochre; cravat in pale brown wash, with the lights in white and shadowed in greenish-grey; coat in pale brown wash, modelled in darker colour and with lights in grey and white; background a solid blue wash; on vellum put down on pasteboard.

Frame: Seventeenth-century gold locket, the back flat, though curved from top to bottom with straight sides flaring out, and chased with a running scallop ornament just below the bezel, into which the bevelled edges of the flat glass is set; on the back, two loops of flat section, each tapering from the centre to twin scrolls by which the loops are soldered to the back; set in the same case as Cat. No. 189, and with a label inscribed: lames IT.