_Francesco Tacconi_ (Cremonese: painted 1464-1490).
The only signed picture by this painter still in existence. He
was a native of Cremona and worked there: he and his brother
pleased the Cremonese so much by painting in the Town Hall that
the artists were given an exemption from taxes. But he may
be classed as a Venetian, for he was an imitator of Giovanni
Bellini. This picture at once recalls Bellini's No. 280, and is
in fact a copy of a Madonna by that painter in the Chiesa degli
Scalzi at Venice.