The limner was never solely a miniaturist, but worked in other formats and media too. |
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She has developed a penchant for painting her immediate surroundings and has proven to be a deft limner of the domestic interior. |
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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. |
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It was as if he imagined that the limner, being shorn of words, thereby lacked amusement. |
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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. |
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I should always paint children, the limner thought, looking the boy in the eye. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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