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sculpture of Nottingham spread ail over Europe, and was
til'l quite recently ascribed to Italian workshops. The few
and damaged survivais of the Works of English painters
guarantee the existence of artists of the first rank in their
now receiving their just due, but it lias remained for a
génération. The superb miniaturists of East Angiia are
foreign critic to assign to one of them what is perhaps
the finest existing mediaeval miniature, the St. Michael of
Berlin. By general consent the suprême rank of the
embroiderers of this period, likewise East Anglians, is
acknowledged and their opus anglicanum is worthily prized
wherever examples of it are preserved. It is therefore
not a matter for surprize that a picture of such merit as
the Wilton diptych should prove to hâve been painted by
a British Artist—an attribution prima facie probable
and supported by converging arguments cumulatively
convincing.

Sir Martin CONWAY.
Directeur général
de l’Imperial War Muséum, Londres.