Portrait of Barbara van Vlaendenbergh

Hans Memling's Portrait of Barbara van Vlaendenbergh, painted around 1480 and now in the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels, depicts the wife of Willem Moreel, a prominent Bruges patrician. The portrait was originally part of a devotional diptych with the Virgin and Child. Memling's female portraits are distinguished by their combination of aristocratic refinement with warm humanity, capturing both the social status and individual personality of his sitters.

Memling renders the sitter with his characteristic smooth, porcelain-like flesh tones and precise attention to the fashionable Burgundian headdress and costume, set against a subdued interior background that focuses attention on the face.