The limners
Subtitle: America's earliest portrait painters
By: written & illustrated by Leonard Everett Fisher
Edition: 1st Marshall Cavendish ed.
Series: Colonial craftsmen
Publisher: Benchmark Books/Marshall Cavendish
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 47
ISBN-13: 9780761409328
Subjects: American Portrait painting; American Art; Artists; Juvenile literature; History
Description: Discusses the motivation, materials, and techniques of the first "artists" in colonial America--the sign painters--and how their works contribute to a better understanding of early American history and society.
Notes: Includes index.