We are using cookies
This website uses cookies in order to offer you the most relevant information. By browsing this website, you accept these cookies.
This website uses cookies in order to offer you the most relevant information. By browsing this website, you accept these cookies.
Did you know?
You can double click on a word to look it up on TermGallery.
You can double click on a word to look it up on TermGallery.
Meanings of limner in inglés
ruso
иллюстратор español
limner Painter of miniatures in watercolor, generally from life, in the Early Modern period.
Related terms
Synonyms
Examples for "portraitist"
Examples for "portraitist"
1
For decades Velazquez was the official portraitist of the Spanish royal family.
2
In a month, Christina will be the most popular portraitist in Rome.
3
Picasso Portraits National Portrait Gallery Picasso as lover, friend and intimate portraitist.
4
Tells how Mopsy became a sort of portraitist-in-residence at nearby Yama Farms.
5
He met Rubens as a portraitist and took no odds of him.
1
This great portrayer of child life had a sad painful childhood.
2
Mistrust him, Prince, and you, ladies, disarm the portrayer.
3
He is the faithful portrayer of Nature, whose features are always the same and always interesting.
4
He has a wonderful faculty as a portrayer of New England characteristics, and New England scenes.
5
Then there was Beck, who was at his best as a portrayer of youthful enthusiasm and sentiment.
1
He is a genre and portrait painter, by the name of Haggard.
2
You ought to make your mark as a portrait painter in time.
3
The portrait painter will cling to the face and let the clothes alone.
4
The portrait painter makes us feel all this in his picture.
5
Rapid advance of Reynolds to the foremost place as portrait painter.
Usage of limner in inglés
1
A background of lush scenery enhanced the forceful technique of the limner.
2
A skilful limner, at least in this instance, was the imagination of Wilkinson.
3
Pity that for the Philippines no word limner of note exists.
4
We owed this good limner thanks for many a pleasant hour.
5
She was like a picture painted by a very excellent limner.
6
Having, therefore, engaged the limner, for what could I do?
7
The heroine, as imaged in his mind, is arrayed in a loveliness which limner never compassed.
8
At last a limner is sent unto him, who draweth his ill-favored face to the life.
9
The limner's art in vain might trace
10
Whatever the line was, Protogenes, we hear, recognized in it the hand of the greatest limner of Greece.
11
Then he that drew her picture was a good limner, and he that wrote of her said true.
12
On the 23rd, Sir William Allan, R.A, limner to Her Majesty for Scotland, president of the Royal Scottish Academy.
13
You are to be one of the Jury, and we must get some good limner to take down the evidence.
14
But first I would learn to be a real limner; I have some small skill with the brush, he added simply.
15
They were well manned, and had, beside the officers customary in king's ships, a botanist and limner on board each vessel.
16
The slighter those peculiarities, the greater is the merit of the limner who can catch them and transfer them to his canvas.
About this term
Frequent collocations
More collocations
Translations for limner
portugués
catalán
Limner through the time