limner
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Lim·ner
n. (lĭm"nẽr)
[F. enlumineur, LL. illuminator. See Limn, and cf. Alluminor.]
A painter; an artist; esp.: (a) One who paints portraits. (b) One who illuminates books. [Archaic]
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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.
