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limner (lĭm`nər), the work of untrained, generally anonymous artists active in the English American colonies. Characteristic examples of their paintings show flat, awkward, often frontal figures in richly detailed costumes and landscape settings copied from European prints. The limner tradition extended well into the 19th cent. |
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His love of the arts led him to accumulate a sizable collection of paintings by the late American Indian portrait painter, Charles LaMonk, an Antelope Valley resident whose work he greatly admired. Most of the notable American portrait painters of the day studied under West, including Copley; Gilbert Stuart; Charles Willson Peale and his son, Rembrandt Peale; Thomas Sully; and Samuel F. But whether he intended it or not, the master portrait painter, Modigliani, in this self-portrait of hollowed cheeks and sealed lips, painted more than his face. |
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