| 1. | Jonathan Poor, and his partner, Paine, worked as limners.
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| 2. | He worked as a limner for over 20 years.
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| 3. | He was appointed Painter and Limner to Her Majesty the Queen in Scotland in 1977.
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| 4. | In 1812 he was elected president of the limner for Scotland at the Earl of Hopetoun house.
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| 5. | The office of Her Majesty's Painter and Limner is a position within the Royal Household unique to Scotland.
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| 6. | Among colonial America's rising mercantile class, a limner was an unattributed portrait commissioned as a status symbol.
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| 7. | Johnson received his freedom in 1782 and began advertising, identifying himself as a portrait painter and limner as of 1796.
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| 8. | That same year, he was granted the Painter and Limner for Scotland, a position he held until his death.
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| 9. | Still, miniaturists _ or limners, as they were known _ were enormously respected and admired in royal and aristocratic circles.
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| 10. | He succeeded Raeburn as Royal Limner in 1823 and would emerge of one of the most influential British artists of the century.
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