In this volume, forty-two paintings collected by Robert Lehman and his father, Philip, are discussed at length in light of recent technical and art historical research. Reproduced in full colour, the works catalogued here are Petrus Christus's "Goldsmith in His Shop" of 1449, famous as one of the first Northern European paintings to depict everyday life, and Hans Memling's "Portrait of a Young Man" (circa 1475-80), in which the sitter is posed before a landscape, a formula that had lasting repercussions in Italian as well as Northern art. Also included is Memling's "Annunciation", and well-known paintings by Simon Marmion, Jean Hey, Gerard David, Lucas Cranach the Elder and Younger, Hans Holbein, El Greco, George Romney and Sir Henry Raeburn, among others.