limner

The limner could not possibly leave his old friend alone and incapable in this part of town.

But the limner saw them with other eyes.

In early 19th Century America a limner artist was one who had little if no formal training.

Yet after all, it was well; the mortal limner would have fainted his task.

"He said to get the limner quickly.

Take away the occasional helicopter, airplane or modern ferryboat, and you could mistake them for the efforts of a 19th-century limner.

He is classified as a limner.

The limner found himself relaxing.

But first I would learn to be a real limner; I have some small skill with the brush," he added simply.

It was a limner he longed to be, far away from the stir and stress, not a page attending a great lady to the Court functions.

Among colonial America's rising mercantile class, a limner was an unattributed portrait commissioned as a status symbol.

Henry Raeburn is knighted and appointed royal limner.

A limner is an illustrator.

"What have you learned, limner?"

A limner is an illuminator of manuscripts, or more generally, a painter of ornamental decoration.

Johnson received his freedom in 1782 and began advertising; stating himself as a portrait painter and limner as of 1796.

The limner frowned.

Master Limner?"

A skilled limner!

The limner who'd painted it had essayed a portrait of a round-faced man, bewigged and with goggle-eyes.

I wonder if it could possibly have originated in the term 'limner', meaning a jobbing portrait-painter in or around the c16.

John Hall, the limner from Bristol hired to do the restoration, painted a picture of the monument on pasteboard before beginning.

Mr. Golub was once a limner of monumental but anonymous figures - solitary or engaged in existential struggles - which had a certain success.

Nicholas Hilliard, English goldsmith and limner best known for his portrait miniatures (died 1619)

One of the most outstanding suspects is a brilliant but anonymous limner called the Master of the Amsterdam Cabinet.