_Bernardino Lanini_ (Lombard: about 1508-1578).
Lanini was a native of Vercelli, and a scholar of Gaudenzio
Ferrari. Subsequently he approached more to the manner of
Leonardo, as in this picture dated 1543. His works are frequent
at Turin and Vercelli. There is an altar-piece by him at Borgo
Sesia, near Varallo; his principal works are frescoes in the
Cathedral at Novara.
Mr. Pater bids us notice in this picture the "pensive, tarnished silver
sidelights, like mere reflections of natural sunshine" ("Art Notes in
North Italy," _New Review_, Nov. 1890).