THE KING'S LIMNER
QUAINT AND ANCIENT TITLE. Mr Robert Gibb, the King's Limner for Scotland, who has died in his 87th year at the end of February, was a Scot of Scots, and rarely came south.. But he was fond of travelling abroad, and comparatively recently spent some time in Egypt. His rather curious official title is quite an ancient one. David Wilkie was a King's Limner. So was Sir Noel Paton, the painter of a picture that aroused much discussion in Victorian days, The Muck Rake. Although posterity will honour Gibb mainly by The Thin Red Line and other battle pictures, he was exceedingly fond of painting Vikings. As a small boy, says the London Daily Telegraph, he used to cover his copy books with them—a premonition of one of his efforts, The Last of the Vikings.
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Franklin Times, Volume XXII, Issue 58, 20 May 1932, Page 4 (Supplement)
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138THE KING'S LIMNER Franklin Times, Volume XXII, Issue 58, 20 May 1932, Page 4 (Supplement)
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