 His identity is established through the coat of arms shown on the reverse of the panel and through the inscription "Francisque", also on the reverse.The portrait was executed around 1460, late in van der Weyden's career, at a time when he was a highly sought after and prestigious portraitist.The panel is noted for its abandonment of the style developed by Jan van Eyck which had become the standard model for northern painters to then, a style perhaps typified by Petrus Christus' 1446 Portrait of a Carthusian.