Hulin de Loo, Georges: Early Flemish paintings in the Renders Collection at Bruges: exhibited at the Belgian Exhibition, Burlington House, January 1927 (London, 1927)

and who will bring forward some new documents, has taken
as starting - point of his grouping, two portraits of the Uffiri
in Florence. They represent, as has already been shown
in 1902 by Warburg, Pierantonio Bandini Baroncelli and
his wife, nee Bonciani; as their marriage did not take place
till 1489, the figures in the Florence Museum are certainly
posterior to that date; on the other hand however, they can
hardly have been painted later than 1499 for they seem to
have been done from nature and Pierantonio died in that
year, at the siege of Pisa. From 1480 this same Pierantonio
was the agent of the Medicis in Bruges, having succeeded in
that post to Tommaso Portinari who is shown on the altar -
screen by Van der Goes, in Florence. Here then, independent
of any considerations of craft which, by the way, shows a
rather close relation to the ; style of Petrus Christus, are
ready defined, the region and the period of activity of our
Round these two portraits would he grouped, first, a
picture belonging to the former Labouchere collection, which
a few years ago came into the hands of the London dealers;
it represents a nun of an unknown order between three
donors, one man and two women, and second, our Annuncia-
tion which, judging from certain details (the fur cuffs, for
instance,) would seem to have been painted about 1500. On
comparing the technique of our panel with that of the two
portraits in Florence, it is easy to see that they have been
done by the same hand; let us examine, for instance, the face
of our Virgin and that of the young woman of the Uffiri