Limners
May refer to any painter, but more often to itinerant American painters of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, who made literal and naïve portraits. They were largely self-taught.
Other occupations - a limner (traveling portrait artist), dance instructor, clerk and taxidermist.
Marriage - 1808 to local schoolmarm Lucy Bakewell.
Legal Woes - 1819 he was briefly jailed for failing to pay his debts.
Grandma Moses, born Anna Mary Robertson on September 7, 1860, was a member of that watershed generation of amateur painters who came of age after the heyday of the professional limner, ...
Next to him come Paul, an incomparable limner of student life and the manners and customs of the Bavarian populace; E. Thdny, a wonderfully clever caricaturist of the airs and assumption of the Prussian Junker and the Prussian subaltern; J. C.
 See also: Portrait, Painting, Aesthetic, School, Self-taught
  
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