Despite this, Deas's portraits are bland descendants of the primitive likenesses done by Colonial and Federal-era limners. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Wallingford, to carry out his great designs, and many more skilled limners whose names have gone down into silence. ❋ Various (N/A)
But to detail all the absurdities and indecencies of these revered artists, whether limners, or carvers in wood, were endless. ❋ Various (N/A)
So the power of creating is almost lost, and limners must be content to copy pretty things. ❋ 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." ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ 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. ❋ 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. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ 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. ❋ Unknown (1888)
The public gazes astonished: the hasty limners sketch her features, Charlotte not disapproving: the men of law proceed with their formalities. ❋ Various (1885)
And that set Wulfhere laughing again, for the good monks who paint these things are seldom good limners, but make up for bad drawing by bright colour. ❋ Unknown (1884)
"Faith, no!" he answered, standing back from the banner and holding his hands at each side of his eyes, regarding his work as limners do. ❋ Andrew Lang (1878)
Some divine spark of poetical imagination, some tenderness of sentiment, some play of fancy, unknown perhaps, to the hard, dry, matter-of-fact limners of the ancestral school, might thus be introduced into the original line of hereditary artists. ❋ Grant Allen (1873)
Artists, limners, copyists, musicians, scholars, formed part of her retinue, and at once the German Court became the rival of those of ❋ John William Bradley (1873)
Golden Age of the world; and that is done by the scribes and the limners. ❋ William Morris (1865)
And now limners were sent out into all lands and realms to take the likenesses of the fairest Princesses, and the Prince was to chose between them. ❋ George Webbe Dasent (1856)
In making up the group, we shall borrow freely from the limners, beginning with the graphic outline of one of his most devoted and well-appreciated personal friends, and his first biographer, ❋ Benson John Lossing (1852)
All other limners made him merely grotesque, but Milton made him awful. ❋ Charles Mackay (1851)
