Portrait, head and shoulders, to front, of a young man; the sitter is wearing armour. Features softly stippled and hatched in sanguine, with some brown, especially round the eyes and chin, and black with white heightening at the eyes, on a very pale and thin carnation ground; hair in brown wash, lined with darker colour and with some highlights in pale ochre; collar in a thin white wash with some streaks of brown and grey; armour in grey washes, with lights in off-white and studs in metallic gold; background a solid blue wash with gold marginal strip; on vellum put down on pasteboard.

Frame: Silver, apparently electro-gilt, but perhaps basically mid-seventeenth-century oval locket; the convex back rounded to the bezel which holds the bevelled edge of the convex glass. The hanger of narrow D-section, bifurcating at the back into two small loops and then into tapering spirals of five turns.