I’m very pleased with how this image turned out, but I’m unsure about white balance.
Is it correct?
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Lovely image Radu, very nice colors overall! White balance doesn’t mean a thing when you’re making art 
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It does to me. Art can be correctly white balanced, can’t it?
Hmm, the only way to know if the white balance is ‘correct’, is to have a neutral gray patch somewhere in your image that you can use as a reference, or to have measured the exact color temperature at the scene.
If you haven’t done either of the two, I don’t think there is any way to provide a ‘correct’ white balance. Everything becomes aesthetics.
The white of the eyes looks a bit greenish to me.
Colin beat me to it: the white of the eyes normally is a good WB spot.
Thank you.
Oddly enough, picking from the white of the eyes gives me a very pink image, so I tried to eyeball it. I’ve reuploaded the image, with a slightly diifferent crop and WB.
It’s about as close to good as I can get, so I’m a call it done.
This made me laugh 
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I can see why.
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Lovely image! I didn’t see the previous wb version, but this one looks nice, if a little ‘cold’ for my tastes.
Are the shadows natural or did you have a screen or something similar?
I just broke a twig off a nearby bush and held it between the sun and her face to get those shadows.
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WB using the sclera is hit or miss for me. My insight for your image (the 2nd one) is to shift the hue toward yellow and perhaps reduce the green. Vectorscoping the skin helps.
Excellent input @afre. Is vectorscoping possible in RT?
Make a feature request? 
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It’s allready there, somewhere deep in the issue tracker: Add more scopes · Issue #4763 · Beep6581/RawTherapee · GitHub
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Been waiting for a long time: longer than RT has been around. No rush. 
In the meantime, run your favourite video editor, or Magic Lantern (for certain Canon cameras), load the image et voilà. E.g. Shotcut (likely without colour management 
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Yes but it will not be able to load RAWS
Which is unfortunate. Have to go back (export) and forth (check). I actually do this with apps all of the time to get the most out of everything.
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It is indeed unfortunate and I make a point out of avoiding this back-and-forth. It’s not only cumbersome and annoying, but repeated file conversions and compressions just degrade the image.
I try to do most if not all my processing in RAW with RawTherapee and if there’s something I need to do that RT can’t I export to 16bit tiff and put it in Gimp, or Zerene Stacker or whatever the case may be. After tiff comes jpeg where I call it done.
You misunderstand. I view the exported result in another app but do all of my processing in one place.