Like Memling, Van der Goes worked for distinguished local and foreign clients, including Charles the Bold of Burgundy, the Florentine banker Tommaso Portinari, and the Scottish cleric Edward Bonkil. Dazzlingly virtuosic, and monumentally conceived, works such as the Trinity Panels in Edinburgh, the Death of the Virgin in Bruges and the Portinari Triptych testify to his expressive skills and his genius as a designer. At the height of his career Hugo retired from the world to become a lay brother in the Rode Kloster near Brussels, and seems to have suffered bouts of melancholia and depression.