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limning
▪ I. limning, vbl. n. (ˈlɪmɪŋ, ˈlɪmnɪŋ) [f. limn v. + -ing1.] 1. Illuminating of manuscripts, etc. Also concr.c 1485 E.E. Misc. (Warton Club) 72 There begynnyth the crafte of lymnynge of bokys. 1573 (title) A very proper treatise, wherein is briefly sett forthe the arte of limming, which teacheth ho... Oxford English Dictionary
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Claire Lombardo
The Wall Street Journal called it "an assured first novel", writing: "The strength of the book is in its unsentimental limning of the past, of dinner-table wikipedia.org
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limming
limming obs. form of limning. Oxford English Dictionary
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John Hayls
John Hoskins painted a limning of Hayls, a drawing of which was made by George Vertue (now in the British Museum) References Attribution External links wikipedia.org
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unstuffed
unˈstuffed, ppl. a. [un-1 8.] Not stuffed; † unfurnished.1480 Wardr. Acc. Edw. IV, (1830) 131 Pilowe beres off fustian unstuffed, iiij. 1573 Arte of Limning A iij, A litle borde..couered with a calues skin raysed or vnderstuffed with wolle or floxe or else vnstuffed. 1592 Shakes. Rom. & Jul. ii. iii... Oxford English Dictionary
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Bernard Lens III
Lens was the miniature painter at the courts of kings George I and George II, instructor in miniature painting (then called limning) to prince William wikipedia.org
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Thomas Beckwith
He was apprenticed as a house-painter to George Fleming of Wakefield, who tutored him in drawing and limning; subsequently Beckwith set himself up in business wikipedia.org
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unslickt
† unˈslickt var. unsleaked or unslecked ppl. adjs.1573 Arte of Limning C iv, Vnslickt lyme. Poulder of white bones. 1605 Timme Quersit. iii. 180 Take unslickt lime: let it lye in spring water. Oxford English Dictionary
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Nicholas Hilliard
Style He was the author of an important treatise on miniature painting, now called The Art of Limning (), preserved in the Bodleian Library. The masters mentioned in The Art of Limning are Hans Holbein the Younger, Henry VIII's court painter, and Albrecht Dürer, who he probably only knew from wikipedia.org
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understuffed
underˈstuffed, ppl. a. (under-1 4 a.)1573 Arte of Limning A iij, A litle borde..couered with a calues skin raysed or vnderstuffed with wolle or floxe or else vnstuffed. Oxford English Dictionary
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David Paton (artist)
1st Earl of Dysart, attributed to David des Granges, is also at Ham House as are both the original and Paton's copy of John Hoskins' large rectangular limning wikipedia.org
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cock-tread
ˈcock-tread [cf. Ger. Hahnen-tritt.] The opaque speck or germinal vesicle on the surface of the yolk in an impregnated egg. Also, in earlier use, cock-treading.1573 Art of Limning 3 Take the whites of egges not breaking them in anye wise, but take out the cocketreading. 1654 Gayton Pleasant Notes ii... Oxford English Dictionary
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For Valour (play)
But because of its alert, skilled dialogue, its sure sense of scene movement, its quick but accurate limning of characters (perhaps too many?) wikipedia.org
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Erna Auerbach
subject of her first published book, Tudor Artists (1954), the first work in modern times to lay out the documentary sources for the arts of painting and limning wikipedia.org
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