Group portrait of a lady and a gentleman, three-quarter-length, beside a piano, the former seated in a dark coat, the latter standing, holding the song sheet for 'Annie Laurie' and playing the piano with her right hand, a river landscape visible through a window beyond

This portrait may represent two of the figures who were closely connected with the traditional Scottish ballad 'Annie Laurie'; the singer John Wilson and Lady Douglas Scott, who had amended and set to music the original poem written by William Douglas in 1685.