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1695 R. Graham Short Acct. Eminent Painters in J. Dryden tr. C. A. Du Fresnoy De Arte Graphica 342 Giacomo Cortesi..was the Contemporary of Salvator Rosa, and equally applauded for his admirable Gusto, and grand Manner of Painting.

1775 T. Campbell Diary 27 Apr. (1947) 87 Revisited the exhibition of the Royal Academy & am confirmed in my opinion of the grand manner of Barrys Venus lamenting over Adonis.

1808 Monthly Mag. Feb. 13/2 Vandyke..does not come near his master, Rubens, either for the richness of his compositions, or the grand manner of his execution.

1835 Tait's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 606/2 ‘I certainly never had any intention of settling abroad finally,’ continued Mrs M. L, insensibly, however, relapsing into her grand manner.

1905 Daily Chron. 28 Dec. 3/1 The Royal Academy tradition of the Grand Manner in painting.

1925 F. F. Potter in Teacher's World July Extra No. The boys of Manchester Grammar School were engaged in a project in the grand manner, when they drained, levelled, and turfed their playing fields.

1957 E. H. Gombrich Story of Art (ed. 8) xxv. 381 David and his school cultivated the Grand Manner.

1993 New Yorker 2 Aug. 68 Titian's mature style is, with Raphael's and Michelangelo's, one of the pillars of the Grand Manner properly so called—that set of elevated, generalized, idealized, coercive fomulas which kept its grip on painting in Europe for three hundred years.