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."Grant number: FE-21359-87." National Endowment for the Humanities. Retrieved on September 30, 2013."Grant number: FB-25517-88." National Endowment for the Humanities. Retrieved on October 1, 2013. 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."Frick Collection is the Exclusive U.S. Venue of the Most Comprehensive Exhibition of Memling’s Portraits" (PDF). Frick Collection. Retrieved on September 30, 2013.
