Master of Liesborn

The principal parts, some of them fragmentary, are now to be found in the National Gallery, London, in the LWL-Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte in Münster, the Museum of Fine Arts of Budapest and in private hands.

The painting of the Annunciation represents a double apartment with vaulted ceiling, the front room being represented as an oratory and the other as a sleeping chamber: the marble floor, the damask curtains which surround the bed, a wardrobe, a bench some vases, and writing material, are all carefully drawn and with due regard for perspective; the arched doorway and the partition wall are adorned with figures of Prophets and Christ, and a representation of the world.

The Blessed Virgin, clad in a blue mantle over a robe of gold brocade, is seen in the front room turning from her prie-dieu towards the angel, who, richly robed and bearing in his left hand a sceptre, delivers his greeting.

The "Presentation in the Temple" shows a venerable priest, to whom the Mother presents her Child laid on a white cloth: three witnesses surround the priest, while the mother is attended by two maidservants carrying the doves.

The Liesborn artist is not as skilfully realistic as van Eyck, but his most characteristic claim to fame lies in the purity of his taste.