A full-length portrait facing slightly to the right wearing a black cloth doublet and breeches ornamented with many small gold buttons. The sleeves of the doublet are open and hanging, to reveal the sleeves of the undercoat of a Venetian golden-ribbed material. The breeches are laced at the knee with ribbons and the brown gloves are also beribboned and decorated with rosettes of gold braid. Rich wears a wide collar edged with scalloped Italian bobbin lace and his stockings and shoes are black, the latter with large gold lace shoe roses. His right hand rests on a Malacca cane, his left on his hip. He stands by a balustrade with red draperies above him, revealing his rapier with a large and elaborate hilt. Rich fitted out privateers and beyond on his right is a depiction of an incident from one of his privateering ventures.