Excerpt from The Story of American Painting: The Evolution of Painting in America From Colonial Times to the Present
Nor in the years preceding the Revolution had the scanty traditions of painting been favoured by local environments. Men’s minds were turned to other things than art, and the only conception held of painting was as a means of producing portraits. In the language of the times, the limner (this title itself a corruption of the old English word illuminer, namely, of manuscripts) was spoken of as having an accurate pencil in the deline ation of counterfeit presentments. The school from which he had graduated was more than sel dom that of carriage painting.
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