CIRCLE OF DERICK BAEGERT | Recto: Christ shown to the people; Verso: The Virgin and Saint Christopher; Recto: The Entombment; Verso: Saint Anthony Abbot and Saint Anne

'Spetchley Park -I. Worcestershire, The Seat of Mr. R. V. Berkeley', Country Life, 8 July 1916, p. 45, illustrated in the Drawing Room;

Inventory, 1949, in the Drawing Room

Very little is known about Derick Baegert. He may have become confused with the Kappenberg Master, the painter of a triptych in the village of the same name near Dortmund. Long attributed to the Dünwegge brothers, the retable in the provost's church in Dortmund - considered to be one of the masterpieces of the late 15th-century Westphalian School - is in fact an early work by Baegert from circa 1470. He also painted a large allegorical composition for the town hall in Wesel, now in the castle.

We are grateful to Till Holger Borchert for endorsing the attribution to the circle of Derick Baegert following inspection of images, and for noting that the proportion of the figures are similar to those in the works of an alter ego of Baegert known as the Master of the Kalkar Death of the Virgin.