• The Painter and Limner is a member of the Royal Household in Scotland. Appointments of Court Painters are recorded from 1581 onwards, and the post of...
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  • Look up limn in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A limner is an illuminator of manuscripts, or more generally, a painter of ornamental decoration. A mention...
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  • graphic artist, especially a portrait painter or an illustrator. Limner may also refer to: Lynda Limner Henry Limner (14th century), MP for Norwich, England...
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  • in 1782 and began advertising, identifying himself as a portrait painter and limner as of 1796. He moved frequently, residing often where other artists...
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    The Yeomen Warders of His Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress the Tower of London, and Members of the Sovereign's Body Guard of the Yeoman Guard Extraordinary...
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    The Freake Painter (fl. 1670s), also known as the Freake Limner and the Freake-Gibbs Painter, was an anonymous American portrait painter who has been...
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    between the monarch and the governments in most of the Commonwealth realms. They also have responsibility for the official programme and correspondence of...
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  • "controller", recorded since around 1500 in a number of British titles, and later also in the United States. The variant in spelling results from the...
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    Stanley Cursiter (category 20th-century Scottish painters)
    he was granted the Freedom of Kirkwall and was appointed as the King's (later to be Queen's) Painter and Limner for Scotland, a position he held until...
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  • David Donaldson (artist) (category 20th-century Scottish painters)
    August 1996) was a 20th-century Scottish artist who served as official Painter and Limner to Queen Elizabeth II in Scotland, an ancient title of the Scottish...
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    February 1744 – 6 August 1796) was a Scottish painter, limner, and illustrator, best known for historical subjects and genre works. He was born in Alloa in central...
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  • monarchies, and is of varying prominence today. The original Master of the Horse (Latin: Magister Equitum) in the Roman Republic was an office appointed and dismissed...
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    February 1932) was a Scottish painter. He was Keeper of the National Gallery of Scotland from 1895 to 1907 and was Painter and Limner to the King from 1908 until...
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    excretion and hygiene. The physical intimacy of the role naturally led to his becoming a man in whom much confidence was placed by his royal master and with...
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    (1869–1941) was a Scottish painter, limner and designer. He was an early exponent of the Art Nouveau style in Scotland and an outstanding decorative artist...
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  • with the feudal system, and the monarch instead selected the master of the hounds. In later years, it was a political office and appointed by the Prime...
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  • The original salary consisted of wages of £40 and board wages of £60, which had risen to a total of £160 and was fixed at £106 13s 4d during the reign of...
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    support and provide advice to the Sovereign of the United Kingdom while also acting as the main channel of communication between the Sovereign and the House...
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  • FRSE FRSB FLS Master of Work to the Crown of Scotland – vacant The Painter and Limner – (Vacant since 2021) Sculptor in Ordinary for Scotland – Alexander...
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    Artists of the Tudor court (category Court painters)
    Tudor court are the painters and limners engaged by the monarchs of England's Tudor dynasty and their courtiers between 1485 and 1603, from the reign...
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    Bourgeois was appointed as royal landscape painter by George III in 1791. His Majesty's Painter and Limner is part of the Royal Household in Scotland...
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    Kirkwall (category Port cities and towns in Scotland)
    Conran of Orkney, 7th-century Bishop of the Orkneys Stanley Cursiter, Painter and Limner, born in East Road Ola Gorie, jewellery designer Peter Marshall. He...
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    apply himself with the most exact care and diligence to the rectifying the tables of the motions of the heavens, and the places of the fixed stars, so as...
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    attendance herself on more formal occasions, and undertaking duties at state ceremonies. During the 17th and 18th centuries, this role often overlapped...
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    1729 and 1737) was an American painter. He is believed to be the same artist as those identified as the Schuyler Limner and the Aetatis Suae Limner, though...
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    called dominæ and the four unmarried ones were known as maids of honour. Their task was simply to act as the companions (see lady's companion) and personal...
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  • Britain and ultimately the United Kingdom. He was earlier called the King's/Queen's Swanmaster. The office existed to perform Swan-Upping marking and health-checking...
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  • master of the Queen's music", The Guardian, 21 July 2014 Brodeur, Michael Andor (15 September 2022). "Queen had 'immensely detailed knowledge' of music...
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    (alternatively marschal or marischal) is a hereditary royal officeholder and chivalric title under the sovereign of the United Kingdom used in England...
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  • the Ceremonies was established by James VI and I. The Master's duties were to receive foreign dignitaries and present them to the monarch at court. Below...
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