 In January 2018 the woman's dress was the subject of the BBC Four programme "A Stitch in Time" with fashion historian Amber Butchart.The provenance of the painting begins in 1434 when it was dated by van Eyck and presumably owned by the sitter(s).At some point before 1516 it came into the possession of Don Diego de Guevara (d. Brussels 1520), a Spanish career courtier of the Habsburgs (himself the subject of a fine portrait by Michael Sittow in the National Gallery of Art).