Limner

The title of this article is ambiguous. On the American painter of the colonial era see Schuyler Limner .

Limner is a designation as well as the emergency name for the mostly unknown artisans who were traveling in America before the establishment of an independent American art apart from Indian art . Limner were usually sign painters and inscribed utensils, but they also created their first landscapes, portraits and still lifes .

Individual Limner became known through portraits of well-known people as clients, from whom the corresponding emergency name is derived. This includes people like Mason Limner , Pollard Limner , Stuyvesant Limner , Gansevoort Limner or the Freake Painter . Individual Limner later became known by name as painters such as Charles Codman or Erastus Salisbury Field .

The name Limner is derived from the verb to limn , which comes from an old French name for the illumination of a manuscript with initials and borders .

literature

• Stephan Koja: America. The New World in 19th Century Pictures. Prestel, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-7913-2051-3 , p. 277.
• Obituary of Ronald Searle, limner of St Trinian's and St Custard's