A painter or drawer of portraits.
Painter of miniatures in watercolor, generally from life, in the Early Modern period.
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.
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