Portrait of a boy, to front and wearing a neckcloth and dark cloak. Features very softly hatched and stippled in brown and sanguine, with much shading in blue, blue for the eyes, with black and white for the highlights, on a warm creamy carnation ground; hair in pale brown wash, worked over with darker colour, with lights in pale grey; cloak in pale blue wash, modelled in darker colour and black and the lights in very thin pale grey wash; the clasp in pale brown, modelled with darker colour and the highlight in ochre; part of the cloak(?) at the shoulder in red lake and the shirt in pale wash partly brushed across the bare vellum and lined in grey; background in pale brown wash painted over with dark brown; on vellum put down on pasteboard.

Frame: An oval frame, turned ebony of bolection moulding with additional grooves at the outer and inner edges; the inner ring possibly made separately; the convex glass set in a rebate; a plain brass ring for the hanger, with traces of original gilding, held by a pin driven through the wood at the top. A fruitwood backboard inscribed in graphite: Charles Lord North / Lord Grey.