Portrait of a Young Man (Bellini, Royal Collection)

Portrait of a Young Man is a c.1505 oil on panel painting by Giovanni Bellini. It is the latest surviving portrait by the artist, drawing on the work of Antonello da Messina and Dutch painters of the time. It is also the only portrait in which he included a landscape behind the sitter. He signed it on a cartouche on the trompe-l'œil marble parapet in the foreground.

Portrait of a Young Man

Artist	Giovanni Bellini
Year	c.1505
Medium	oil on panel
Location	Royal Collection
Website	Catalogue entry

The work was bought by Consul Smith and then passed into the British Royal Collection in 1762 when George III of the United Kingdom bought Smith's collection. In 2018 it hung in the King's Closet of Windsor Castle.[1]

The sitter's robe is that of a 'cittadino', the rank in Venetian society between that of patrician. His identity is unknown, although a theory arose in the 1940s that he was the humanist Pietro Bembo; Vasari records Bellini painting a lost portrait of Bembo's mistress, whilst Bellini's biographer Carlo Ridolfi mentions a portrait of Bembo in a list of his works, although this is the only documentary mention of any such work. Bembo would be thirty-five at the time the painting was produced but, although the sitter's nose does seem to match with later medals showing Bembo, his eyes and eyebrows seem to be different.

References

Royal Collection page

Giovanni Bellini
List of works
Paintings	St. Jerome in the Desert (Birmingham) Madonna and Child (Pavia) Transfiguration (Venice) Pietà (Bergamo) Crucifixion Pietà (Milan) Agony in the Garden Dead Christ Supported by Two Angels Presentation at the Temple Christ Blessing (Paris) Frizzoni Madonna Madonna and Child Blessing The Blood of the Redeemer Madonna and Child (Milan, 1460–1465) Greek Madonna Nativity Triptych Saint Vincent Ferrer Altarpiece San Lorenzo Triptych San Sebastiano Triptych Triptych of the Madonna The Head of St John the Baptist Dead Christ Supported by Two Angels (Berlin) Dead Christ Supported by Angels (Rimini) The Dead Christ Supported by the Virgin Mary and St John the Evangelist Lehman Madonna Pesaro Altarpiece Portrait of Georg Fugger Lochis Madonna Madonna and Child (Verona) Enthroned Madonna Adoring the Sleeping Christ Child Madonna and Child (Venice, 1475) Madonna Adoring the Sleeping Christ Child St. Francis in Ecstasy Contarini Madonna Resurrection of Christ Portrait of a Humanist Transfiguration of Christ (Naples) Willys Madonna St. Jerome in the Desert (Florence) St. Jerome Reading in the Countryside Alzano Madonna Madonna of the Red Cherubims Madonna and Child (New York, late 1480s) San Giobbe Altarpiece Madonna and Child with Saint Peter and Saint Sebastian Madonna of the Small Trees Barbarigo Altarpiece Frari Triptych Madonna and Child with Saint Mary Magdalene and Saint Ursula Madonna and Child with the Infant St. John the Baptist Portrait of a Young Man (Paris) Holy Allegory Portrait of a Young Senator Allegories Portrait of a Condottiero Annunciation Christ Blessing (Fort Worth) Circumcision of Christ* Lamentation over the Dead Christ (Florence) Portrait of a Young Man (Washington) Self-Portrait Portrait of a Young Man (Liverpool) Baptism of Christ Head of the Redeemer Portrait of Doge Leonardo Loredan Madonna and Child with St. John the Baptist and a Female Saint Martinengo Pietà Portrait of a Young Man (Royal Collection) St. Jerome in the Desert (Washington) San Zaccaria Altarpiece Madonna del Prato The Infant Bacchus Sacred Conversation (Madrid) St. Mark Preaching in Alexandria The Assassination of Saint Peter Martyr Madonna and Child with Four Saints and Donor The Continence of Scipio Madonna and Child (Detroit) Madonna and Child (Rome) Madonna and Child (Milan, 1510) Virgin in Glory with Saints Saints Christopher, Jerome and Louis of Toulouse The Feast of the Gods Drunkenness of Noah Naked Young Woman in Front of a Mirror Portrait of Fra Teodoro of Urbino as Saint Dominic Deposition
Family	Jacopo Bellini (father) Gentile Bellini (brother) Andrea Mantegna (brother-in-law)
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