limner

[ lim-ner ]

/ ˈlɪm nər /

a person who paints or draws.

an itinerant painter of 18th-century America who usually had little formal training.

a person who describes or depicts in words: an essayist known as a fine limner of prominent people and their careers.

an illuminator of medieval manuscripts.

Origin of limner

1350–1400; Middle English lymnour, lymynour; see limn, -or², -er¹

Cotton Mather also alludes to a certain artist whom he speaks of as a limner.

Art in America |Samuel Greene Wheeler (S.G.W.) Benjamin
When Boucher died, the generation of which he was the limner was near come to its violent end.

Boucher |Haldane Macfall
The limner's art is still almost a novelty here; and many persons of rank solicited permission to witness the operation.

A New Voyage Round the World, in the years 1823, 24, 25, and 26, Vol. 2 |Otto von Kotzebue
If that was not an acknowledgment of the limner's fidelity, what could be?

Girlhood and Womanhood |Sarah Tytler

They were well manned, and had, beside the officers customary in king's ships, a botanist and limner on board each vessel.

An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Vol. 1 |David Collins