This large oil painting is a portrait of a light skinned, white bearded, burly man wearing an enormous cranberry red velvet robe with sleeves that envelop his small pale hands. He holds a white lace handkerchief in his left hand. His body and head are tilted slightly toward the viewer's left. Three quarters of his body is shown in front of the folds of a dark brown curtain. A landscape of stormy skies over a distant town is painted as a small rectangular scene through a window in the upper left corner of the composition. The old man has a long wispy beard that is cleft in the lower center and a long droopy mustache. He has rheumy, bloodshot eyes of indeterminate color, bushy gray eyebrows, a long prominent nose, and pursed deep pink lips. He wears a round, shallow, red velvet cap with a flat top. His eyes engage the viewer’s directly with a questioning, wary expression.