Barbara Greenhouse Lane (May 31, 1941 - September 18, 2023)[1] was an art historian, and chair of the art department in the graduate studies and research program at Queens College, City University of New York.
[2] She was a scholar of the Northern Renaissance, early Netherlandish painting, and medieval art.
[3] Lane has performed extensive research on Hans Memling; she was awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities in 1987 and 1990 in order to further her work.
[4][5] Her paper "The Patron and the Pirate: The Mystery of Memling's Gdańsk Last Judgment" was published in Art Bulletin in 1991.
On October 26, 2005 she delivered a lecture entitled "Memling’s Influence on Italian Portraiture from Leonardo to Raphael" at the Frick Museum.