Bernardino Campi is recorded as having been a prolific portraitist although surprisingly few of these paintings have been identified to date. In 1550 Campi was commissioned by Isabella of Capua, wife of the Ferrarese Gonzaga prince who was govenor of Milan, to paint her family's portraits. Stylistic comparisons can be made with Campi's only known signed and dated work of 1556 representing 'Don Prospero Quintavalle', formerly with Bachstitz Galleries, the Hague, and his 'Portrait of a Lady', in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Campi's portraits are reminiscent of his contemporary Giovanni Battista Moroni and are ultimately derived from the full-length portraiture of Titian