1. of, relating to, or typical of a painter, artistic.2. Suggestive or characteristic of a painting or of the art of painting; especially, marked by an openness of form which is not linear and in which sharp outlines are lacking
1. A painterly attention to detail.
2. Painterly photography.
Painterly means relating to or characteristic of painting or painters. his painterly talents The film has a painterly eye. typical of painters or painting