limners

Despite this, Deas's portraits are bland descendants of the primitive likenesses done by Colonial and Federal-era limners.

Recalled From Obscurity 2010

But to detail all the absurdities and indecencies of these revered artists, whether limners, or carvers in wood, were endless.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 341, November 15, 1828 Various

Wallingford, to carry out his great designs, and many more skilled limners whose names have gone down into silence.

The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 Various

So the power of creating is almost lost, and limners must be content to copy pretty things.

Art Clive Bell 1922

"I have within my house, in wages," he writes to Lord Burleigh, in 1573, "drawers and cutters, painters, limners, writers and bookbinders."

Old English Libraries; The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages 1911

He seems to have rediscovered the mediaeval limners 'secrets of cutting the wood, giving the necessary richness to the ink, creating a whole scale of half-tones, and specially of adapting the design to typographic printing, and making of it, so to say, an ornament and a decorative extension for the type.

The French Impressionists (1860-1900) Camille Mauclair 1908

Queen's Court Passage, and near by, at Victoria Terrace, was the house set aside for the limners or artists who drew and painted for the works.

The Tapestry Book Helen Churchill Hungerford Candee 1905

These transcribers and limners worked principally upon parchment and vellum, for the use of paper was by no means extensive until the invention of the art of printing.

Forty Centuries of Ink 1904

Cooper, who is styled by contemporary eulogists the “prince of limners,” gave a strength and freedom to the art which it had not formerly possessed; but where he attempted to express more of the figure than the head, his drawing is defective.

The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652-54 Parry, Edward A 1901

Cooper, who is styled by contemporary eulogists the "prince of limners," gave a strength and freedom to the art which it had not formerly possessed; but where he attempted to express more of the figure than the head, his drawing is defective.

Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54) 1888