A portrait of Sir Thomas Aston standing at the deathbed of his wife: a large seventeenth-century mourning painting, predominantly in black and white. The dead woman, dressed in white lace bedclothes, lies in a grand bed to the right, which is draped in black velvet. A second woman, dressed in black, is kneeling at the foot of the bed in the bottom right corner, facing the viewer. She wears earrings of two black teardrop-shaped pearls at each ear. Her neck and breast are adorned with black ribbon bows. One of her arms has a black ribbon tied around it, and the other a black string. Sir Thomas Aston stands to the left of the bed, one hand resting on a skull placed on a wicker cradle draped in black velvet, which stands on the floor beside the deathbed.