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limner

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limner (lĭm`nər), the work of untrained, generally anonymous artists active in the English American colonies. Characteristic examples of their paintings show flat, awkward, often frontal figures in richly detailed costumes and landscape settings copied from European prints. The limner tradition extended well into the 19th cent.
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Having therefore engaged the limner (for what could I do?
English Literature For Boys And Girls by Marshall, H.E. View in context
"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.
A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context
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