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‘A great change in English manuscript painting occurred around 1400[ce] and is associated with an artist named Herman Scheere (active c[irca] 1395-1420[ce], who seems to have come from the region of Cologne. His figures have a rather plump softness that brings them into line with stylistic developments elsewhere; he also had a command of perspective and compositional structure lacking in the work of most previous artists in England. The style of John Siferwas, another artist active during this period, is similar, but his page decoration is usually more lavish; he produced a series of beautiful bird studies reminiscent of Lombard work. It should be noted, however, that this sort of realistic observation had long been a feature of English work – in the 14^th century, for example, and in English embroidery of about 1300.’

– ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 25: 341]

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