 There have been a number of attempts to associate her with a historical person, including in the 19th century, as Willem Moreel's daughter Mary.Willem Moreel was a magistrate of Bruges who commissioned from Memling a portrait diptych and, later, a triptych for the Church of Saint James at Bruges which he had founded.But any identities have in turn been rejected; in the case of Mary Moreel, she would have been too young in 1480 to be the woman portrayed.