_Unknown_ (School of Cologne: early 16th Century).
By the master of the "Death of the Virgin" (a picture in the Munich
Gallery), a painter of Cologne, the teacher, it is said, of Bruyn. The
donor of the picture, with spectacles and a large straw hat, stands
at a desk, reading. (The curious in such matters may consult _Notes
and Queries_, 1890, for other early instances of spectacles in art.)
The picture was No. 48 (Plate 23) in the Burlington Fine Art Club's
Exhibition of Early Netherlandish Pictures, 1892.