1) Artist 2) Portraitist 3) Portrayer 1) Obsolete occupation 2) Painter 3) Painter of portraits 4) Portrait painter 5) Portraitist 6) Portrayer 
A limner is an illuminator of manuscripts, or more generally, a painter of ornamental decoration. One of the earliest mentions of a limner`s work is found in the book Methods and Materials of Painting by Charles Lock Eastlake (1793–1865). ==United Kingdom== In London in the mid-19th century the limner David Laurent de Lara established himself a....
painter of portraits
• (n.) One who illuminates books. • (n.) One who paints portraits. • (n.) A painter; an artist
(from the article `Hilliard, Nicholas`) the first great native-born English painter of the Renaissance. His lyrical portraits raised the art of painting miniature portraiture (limning in ...
Painter of miniatures, from an `illuminator` (of manuscripts). The term was used to describe the Elizabethan practitioners of miniature painting; for example, Nicholas Hilliard. It was later...
Lim'ner (lĭm'nẽr) noun [ French enlumineur , Late Latin illuminator . See Limn , and confer Alluminor .] A painter; an artist ; esp.: (a) One who paints portraits. (b) One who illuminates books. [ Archaic]