A full length portrait of Charles II (1630-1685) wearing Garter robes - a dark blue velvet mantle lined with white silk and embroidered with the Garter badge. Around his neck are the collar and Great George of the Order. His white shoes have red heels and are decorated with jewelled buckles. A black hat decorated with multiple white ostrich feathers rests on a table covered with blue velvet beside him. .

The face and surrounding hair appear to be by Lely's hand, but were apparently left unfinished and the figure completed, perhaps by Gaspars around the end of the seventeenth century. At Lely's death there were seventeen copies of his portraits of the King in his studio, but remarkably it appears that Charles II did not own a finished portrait of himself by the artist.