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limner

Painter of miniatures, from an ‘illuminator’ (of manuscripts). The term was used to describe the Elizabethan practitioners of miniature painting; for example, Nicholas Hilliard. It was later applied to anonymous artisans who painted portraits in colonial America.



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Having therefore engaged the limner (for what could I do?
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"That is Wat the limner," quoth the landlady, sitting down beside Alleyne, and pointing with the ladle to the sleeping man.
The White Company by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
Macaulay is a masterly limner of the external side of life, but he is scarcely conscious of the interior world in which the finer spirits live and work out their destinies.
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