Limner

Limner is a name and the Notname for the mostly unknown craftsman, off the Indian art in America were on the road before the establishment of an independent American art. Limner were usually a sign painter and labeled commodities, but they also created the first landscape paintings, portraits and still lifes.

Individual Limner were known. Carried portraits of famous persons as principal, from which derives the corresponding Notname These include people such as the Mason Limner, the Pollard Limner, Stuyvesant Limner, the Gansevoort Limner or Freake Limner. Individual Limner were later known by name as a painter such as Charles Codman or Erastus Salisbury Field.

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