The Antwerp painter Hans Memling portrayed this man in great detail. He is a striking figure, with his dark curls, his fur-lined doublet and the scar on his nose. Who he is, we do not know, but he will be a scion of the French family Lespinette: their family crest is on the back of the panel.
Memling is one of the most important Flemish painters of the 15th century. He was the first northerner to add landscapes to portraits, creating enormous depth.
Hans Memling or Jan van Menninghen (Seligenstadt, c. 1430-40 - Bruges, Aug. 11, 1494) was a painter from the Electorate of Mainz. He is generally considered one of the prominent figures of Old Netherlandish painting, better known as the Flemish Primitives.
The use of perspective and the constant repetition of the ideal of beauty of certain figures, notable with the Madonna figure, takes clear shape in his numerous portraits. His attention to depicting heraldry and placing characters in a landscape, which he was new to, stand out in this regard.
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