This portrait was made using oil paints, over a white preparatory ground layer, which was stretched onto a four-member home-made pine stretcher. The linen canvas was secured on its stretcher with iron tacks that are now rusted. The canvas is out of plain and partially torn from its stretcher, showing several areas of staining, losses, tears, and scratches. The paint was not well bonded to the canvas and needs to be consolidated, lined and re-stretched prior to dirt, varnish, and grime removal.