What's the difference between limner and portraitist?
Limner
Definition:
(n.) A painter; an artist
(n.) One who paints portraits.
(n.) One who illuminates books.
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Portraitist
Definition:
(n.) A portrait painter.
Example Sentences:
(1) Charles I had good reason to be grateful to his favourite portraitist who, in paintings such as a famous barn door-sized image of the king in armour on horseback, made his diminutive form into a towering emblem of wisdom and majesty.
(2) Finn, Merivel writes, "describes himself as a portraitist, but leads, I discover, an almost mendicant life in the shires of England, going on foot from one great house to another, begging to paint its inhabitants".
(3) Nobody painted brassica better or so often – these young men were to cabbage plots what RA portraitists were to kings – and their eyes scoured the landscape constantly for likely child goose-keepers and female cowherds.
(4) Merivel mocks the artist's poverty, but Finn knows that, in the end, he will find enough willing sitters to survive as a portraitist.
(5) The portraits he created tell a story, and the arrangement of the visual details are the pieces of his fiction.” Not so much a portraitist then, as a fantasist.
(6) The rogue self-portraitist has been described as a "tourist" in reports.