 His research led to a consensus that the sitter was a member of the leading English family, the Talbots, then headed by the Earl of Shrewsbury.In 1863 George Scharf suggested the panel was intended as the right-hand wing to a diptych with the 1446 "Portrait of Edward Grimston" (or "Grymston") in the National Gallery, London, leading to speculation that the girl might be Grimston's first wife, Alice.This was rejected by Grete Ring in 1913, on the basis that neither the dimensions nor background of the panels match, and that the Berlin panel was most probably completed some 20–30 years after the Grimston portrait.