Noun : an essayist known as a fine limner of prominent people and their careers.    From Dictionary.com. 

Try this - in the production of an illustrated manuscript a limner was the one who delineated a space to be gilded or coloured.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: THE PERILS OF A FANCY VOCABULARY.] Reference

I shall see you in time, and will carry you to the 'limner'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 1] Reference

THE EARLY PAINTERS: The "limner," or the man who could draw and color.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Text-Book of the History of Painting] Reference

Which they of Paris call the limner's skill?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Painters, Sculptors & Architects, Volume 1 (of 8)] Reference

Which they of Paris call the limner’s skill?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Purgatory. Canto XI] Reference

Which they of Paris call the limner's skill? '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867] Reference

King Corvus sent a limner to capture a likeness of me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wildfire] Reference

Having, therefore, engaged the limner -- for what could I do?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ontario High School Reader] Reference

Gainsborough, superbly picturesque, and a faithful limner withal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Some Old Time Beauties After Portraits by the English Masters, with Embellishment and Comment] Reference

At last a limner is sent unto him, who draweth his ill-favored face to the life.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Riches of Bunyan] Reference

The limner had made me appear beautiful, modest, prideful, with ardency in one eye.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wildfire] Reference

Drawing from the antique has long been an acknowledged initiation for the limner, and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858] Reference

I asked the limner if I was still lopsided, if the right side of my face drooped more than the left.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wildfire] Reference

I dreamed your—I dreamed the Starling received a likeness of me, the very same one the limner painted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wildfire] Reference

I watched the limner, a small man with a long beard that he braided and tucked under his surcoat to keep out of the way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wildfire] Reference

"The best and most cunning limner of this or any land.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time] Reference

We owed this good limner thanks for many a pleasant hour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference

She was like a picture painted by a very excellent limner.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Well of Saint Clare] Reference

Having, therefore, engaged the limner-for what could I do?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vicar of Wakefield] Reference

I shall see you in time, and will carry you to the limner.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Lord Byron]

It directed that Mr. Hall, a local limner or painter, is to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shakespeare, Bacon, and the Great Unknown] Reference

Blazonry vivid still, as if fresh from the touch of the limner.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4] Reference

A skilful limner, at least in this instance, was the imagination of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Two Wives] Reference

Nor are the poet's words more adequate than the colours of the limner.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century] Reference

"Are you, then, the new limner who makes pictures by aid of the box and glass?".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Panchronicon] Reference

I should expect any limner would laugh in my face if I offered it to him to be copied.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4] Reference

You are to be one of the Jury, and we must get some good limner to take down the evidence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey] Reference

October and November came and sped, and Hilarius 'longing to be a limner waxed with the waning year.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gathering of Brother Hilarius] Reference

'He that drew her picture was a good limner,' said Mr. Honest, 'and he that so wrote of her said true.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love to the Uttermost Expositions of John XIII.-XXI.] Reference

Little Allan is trying hard for the post of queen's limner for Scotland, vacant by poor Wilkie's death.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete] Reference

"He that drew her picture was a good limner," said Mr. Honest, "and he that so wrote of her said true".    From Wordnik.com.  [Bunyan Characters (2nd Series)] Reference

See you not, in the wan face and livid limbs, how faithfully the limner hath painted the hues and loathsomeness of death?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes] Reference

The slighter those peculiarities, the greater is the merit of the limner who can catch them and transfer them to his canvas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3)] Reference

It was a limner he longed to be, far away from the stir and stress, not a page attending a great lady to the Court functions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gathering of Brother Hilarius] Reference

In 1830 Wilkie succeeded Sir Thomas Lawrence as painter to the king, as he had been limner to the King of Scotland since 1822.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of Art for Beginners and Students Painting, Sculpture, Architecture] Reference

She made for herself a mental portrait of him more gracious in its flattery than ever was canvas coming from the hand of a Court limner.    From Wordnik.com.  [He Knew He Was Right] Reference

It may be observed here our middy had improved greatly in the matter of costume since his appointment to the rank of limner to Ben-Ahmed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Middy and the Moors An Algerine Story] Reference

One day a great limner, the Signor Andrea di Cione, whom men call d'Orcagna, stayed by me where I stood with my melons in the shadow of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gathering of Brother Hilarius] Reference