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ART 507
Hours (B.M. MS. Add. 42131) painted between 1414-35.
Doubtless other foreign artists were attracted to Lancastrian
London and settled and practised there. John Siferwas, a Do^
minican friar, is a named English artist who reflects some of
these foreign influences in his work in the Sherborne Missal
(Alnwick castle) and the Lovell Lectionary (B.M. MS. Harley
7026); in the latter manuscript the presentation plate showing
Siferwas offering his book to Lord Lovell is a striking instance
ofthe new interest in portraiture, which seems to have resulted
in a numerous production of small panels, showing the head
and shoulders, It is a type common to France and Flanders, and
in England seems to have been practised with no particular in'
dividuality or distinction; but the examples known are mainly,
possibly entirely, sixteenth/century or later copies of earlier
works. Now that the Portrait Gallery panel of Margaret
Beaufort is known to have another head beneath its present
surface, and the same gallery's portrait of Henry VII is generally
attributed to a visiting Fleming, English panel portraiture,
between Richard II and Henry VIII, can boast few extant
triumphs. The countess of Salisbury (