MANNER

Dictionary of Science, Literature and Art · 1842 · p. 27

(Fr. maniere.) In the Fine Arts, a peculiarity of treating a subject, or of executing it, by which individual artists are distinguished: the latter arising out of a particular mode of using the media and implements of art, the former out of a singular method of observing nature. (See Sir J. Reynolds's Sixth Discourse.) MAN-OF-WAR, [s. 723]