Kneeling Donor with St. John the Baptist

This panel originally formed the left wing of a now dismantled triptych. The right wing representing St. Margaret is currently in the Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, and the center panel is now lost. The spatial treatment of the background landscape (where the artist has included Christ's temptation and baptism) in this composition represents a significant shift from devotional to narrative imagery in Flemish painting. Vrancke van der Stockt probably trained with his father in Brussels, but the most pervasive influence on his art came from Rogier van der Weyden. Van der Stockt was a friend and possibly a collaborator with van der Weyden, and succeeded him as the official painter to the town of Brussels in 1464.