_Bartolommeo Veneziano_ (painted 1505-1530).
The Martinengo family seems to have patronised this painter,
as the Senator Count Martinengo, of Venice, possesses as
an heirloom a small picture by the master which is signed
"Bartolommeo mezzo Veneziano e mezzo Cremonese." The present
picture (dated 1530) is signed "Bartolom. Venetus," so that he
was perhaps a Cremonese by birth and a Venetian by artistic
training, being probably a pupil of Giovanni Bellini (see
Morelli's _Italian Works in German Galleries_, p. 138).
A portrait of a young man, at the age of twenty-six (as the inscription
tells us), in the costume of the Campagnia della Calza (the guild of
the stocking).