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How to use limner in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word limner? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
The limner was never solely a miniaturist, but worked in other formats and media too.
She has developed a penchant for painting her immediate surroundings and has proven to be a deft limner of the domestic interior.
It was even said that lovers were able to see their reflections in each other's eyes, but the limner had no experience of this.
It was as if he imagined that the limner, being shorn of words, thereby lacked amusement.
The painting is by the same unidentified limner as the portraits of Catherine Van Patten and Adam Swarth in the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, New York.
I should always paint children, the limner thought, looking the boy in the eye.
On the accession of James I, in 1603, his appointment as limner to the crown was continued, but he seems to have found the atmosphere of the new court less congenial to his art.
He is a superb teller of a tale, a reveller in dodgy deeds, a keen observer of the febrile, dissimulating characters of court and embassy, and a splendid limner of the great jousts and entertainments of the age.
He gained familiarity with graphic art from his stepfather, the limner and engraver Peter Pelham, and developed an early sense of vocation: before he was 20 he was already an accomplished draughtsman.
Hilliard's most famous student, Isaac Oliver, later limner to Anne of Denmark and Henry, Prince of Wales, was married to the niece of Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger.
Examples from Classical Literature
It was as grim a picture as any limner of the weird could wish to look upon.
While I have been rusticating at La Socapa, my brother limner has been busily employed on work in which he takes especial delight.
He was known for reasons sake to the people of the house only as the Frenchman limner.
Altman infers that Burbage, trained both in rhetoric and as a limner, would have relished the composite otherness of Othello.
Would that she could, or that a limner were here to depict your likeness.
Nor are the poet's words more adequate than the colours of the limner.
Earl began his career as a self-taught limner who drew crude portraits of local citizens.
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.
The medieval limner, as he was called, painted with excellence on vellum, his watercolours producing a glowing page bettered only by a stained glass window.
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