A painter or drawer of portraits.
Painter of miniatures in watercolor, generally from life, in the Early Modern period.
1A background of lush scenery enhanced the forceful technique of the limner.
2A skilful limner, at least in this instance, was the imagination of Wilkinson.
3Pity that for the Philippines no word limner of note exists.
4We owed this good limner thanks for many a pleasant hour.
5She was like a picture painted by a very excellent limner.
6Having, therefore, engaged the limner, for what could I do?
7The heroine, as imaged in his mind, is arrayed in a loveliness which limner never compassed.
8At last a limner is sent unto him, who draweth his ill-favored face to the life.
9The limner's art in vain might trace
10Whatever the line was, Protogenes, we hear, recognized in it the hand of the greatest limner of Greece.
11Then he that drew her picture was a good limner, and he that wrote of her said true.
12On the 23rd, Sir William Allan, R.A, limner to Her Majesty for Scotland, president of the Royal Scottish Academy.
13You are to be one of the Jury, and we must get some good limner to take down the evidence.
14But first I would learn to be a real limner; I have some small skill with the brush, he added simply.
15They were well manned, and had, beside the officers customary in king's ships, a botanist and limner on board each vessel.
16The slighter those peculiarities, the greater is the merit of the limner who can catch them and transfer them to his canvas.