a painter or drawer of portraits
Self-taught, traveling portrait painter.
A term used to denote colonial Dutch painters. The verb “to limn” is an old term meaning to paint in fine detail.
The name used to denote an artist, particularly a portrait painter, in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and in New England during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Person who paints or draws portraits
A name for an artist from the root word illuminate, used in Britain and in eighteenth-century America. Colonial artists or limners, often working in a naive style, produced the first American portraits, still lifes, and landscapes.
A self-taught painter who painted portraits. From the Latin “Limm” which means to illuminate, to draw or outline in sharp detail.
Limner is a term applied to the art of untrained and unnamed painters of the American Colonies, or to the artists themselves. Typically the art is ornamental decoration for signs, clock faces, fire buckets, fire screens, etc. The term is derived from illuminator.