Clouet was one of a family of limners whose work was the best of the day, and his drawings should be seen and studied by all who wish to realise how admirable that work was in expression and character.
The amount of body colour used by limners of this period was so great, that the transparency of tone attained by later painters was impossible.
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.
With that face "which limners might have loved to paint, and ladies to look upon," he still conquers hearts from his dark corner above the private staircase in Sir Walter's deserted study.
Aubrey calls Cooper "the prince of limners of his age.
The period of its foundation was prolific in the number of limners it produced.
By 1501 the Company of Stationers was established, and it is highly probable that this was only the Brotherhood of Text-writers and Limnersunder the more general designation.
The spirit which animated devotionallimners being long dead, any imitation of their style must be mechanical--a reproduction of its mannerism after its motives are extinct.
Amongst other of his acquaintance I must not forget our common friend, Mr. Samuel Cowper, the prince of limners of this last age, who drew his picture[CXII.
His love to and skill in painting made a great friendship between him and Mr. Samuel Cowper (the prince of limners of this age).
He also had some instruction in draweing from Mr. Samuel Cowper (prince of limners of this age); but whether from him before or after Mr. Lilly quaere?
The flat kite-shield is not always to be identified in the drawings of the time, because the shadeless outlines of the limners may pass for either flat or bowed surfaces.
A simile or an epithet lets in more light than all the limners and all the historians.
And secondly, as to the other of these operations on colours, that is, the deepning of them, Limners and Painters colours are for the most part also uncapable.
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