As for our portrait limners, their name is Legion, and that comprehensive name must go for all.

And as his loyalty had met Such ill requital from the King, He called his page and bade him straight A limner deft before him bring.

Artist N. artist; painter, limner, drawer, sketcher, designer, engraver; master, old master; draftsman, draughtsman; copyist, dauber, hack; enamel, enameler, enamelist; caricaturist.

The heroine, as imaged in his mind, is arrayed in a loveliness which limner never compassed.

Pity that for the Philippines no word limner of note exists.

"Salvani," returned the limner.

The Oriental kings have seen Less beauty in their daïs-queen, And any limner's pencil then Had drawn the eternal love of men, But twice Chance will not intervene.

the Turks, (of a darker hue;) Exhibitions; a Consolatory "Population" Scrap; Hints for Singing after a good master; a Bunch of Facts on Turnips; a column on Listonthat living limner of laughter; and other seasonables.

"Had I looked into my books before I came aboard this here ship, I should have seen through the mistake at once; for I now remember that I ordered one of my limners to take your pretty face, in order that I might show it to my wife at home.

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

Death is not one whom "a limner would love to paint or a lady to look upon"; but Holbein has given a strange and fascinating interest to the figure, which in all other hands is merely repulsive.

I, who had passionately dwelt upon those lineaments in all the fondness of a devoted love, until the form became my heart's companion by day and nightI, who had watched the teardrops falling from those eyes, in which the limner had not failed to fix the natural sorrow that was a part of themwatched and hung upon them in distress and agonyI, surely I, could not mistake the faithful likeness.

BURROUGHS, ALAN. Limners and likenesses; three centuries of American painting.

BURROUGHS, ALAN. Limners and likenesses; three centuries of American painting.

I rather think this will knock that rascal Claude," and I laughed so that I awoke; but the memory of the dream remained with me, and it seemed to me that, perhaps, we poor amateurs might not be any better able to compass aught but caricatures of this marvellous scenery than the ghostly limners of my dream!

A BEAUTY. Had a limner's hand Traced such a heavenly brow, and such a lip, I would have sworn the knave had dreamt it all

He is the celestial limner who shall preserve the authentic faces of every generation from now until the world is no more.

Whatever the line was, Protogenes, we hear, recognized in it the hand of the greatest limner of Greece.

The Picture-Gallery may charm an instructed eye but the multitude have little relish for human Art, because they rarely understand it:while the skill of the Great Limner of Nature is visible in every flower of the garden even to the humblest swain.

But if some limner had been told the whole truth of what she was and been requested to imagine a fitting body for such a soul, he would never have painted Mrs. Conyers as she looked.