Portrait of a man, head and shoulders, turned to front, his hair long, and wearing armour and a neckcloth tied in a bow. Features in brown and sanguine, brushed generously into a heavily impasted ground, and with successive scumbles and glazes in the areas of flesh to give light and shade; white in the eyes and red for the lips; hair in brown wash, lined in darker colour and with the lights in pale brown opaque wash; cravat in pale brown wash, heightened with white and with darker brown and grey for the shadows; armour in dark grey washes with the lights in pale grey-blue and white; the studs in yellow-ochre and brown; sky in opaque washes of blue, grey, brown and yellow; on vellum put down on pasteboard.

Frame: Nineteenth-century gilt locket; nearly flat back overlapping very short straight sides forming the bezel, which holds the flat glass by its bevelled edge; the hanger of D-section with a single narrow central groove, soldered to the back of the locket; two separate spirals of flat wire, each beginning with a short reverse turn before entering seven diminishing turns. On the back, a printed label of South Kensington 1862, inscribed: Baroness North / Aug. 23.