Man sitting in a dark grey/black suit holding paper in his right hand with the left (his left) resting on the arm of the chair. He is not looking directly at the artist. On a dark background.

Half length portrait, the sitter faces the viewer and is seated at a table, with ink bottle and pen beside him. It is in a contemporary frame, darkened gold on plaster. Morley was the first registrar of Birmingham University in 1924. Bernard Munns, or John Bernard Munns, was a Birmingham born portrait painter who, although he exhibited in London and Paris, spent most of his working life painting in and around Birmingham. His father, H.T. Munns had also been a painter.