Other Greek painters associated with the Cyclades were Christodoulos Kalergis and Emmanuel Skordilis.

He was affiliated with Mount Athos, another painter at the monastery complex around the same period was Makarios.

Defterevon is a member of the Neo-Hellenikos Diafotismos in art and the Greek Neoclassical and Romantic period.

According to the Institute of Neohellenic Research, fifty-four of his paintings survived and two frescos.

He studied painting at the holy monastery complex of Mount Athos.

He decorated murals in his family church of Panagia in Gournia, Sifnos.

In 1821, Sifnos played an important role in the Greek War of Independence.

His painting of Eros marks a divergence from theological subjects to other genres.

The Epitaphios was donated to the Christian Archaeological Society in 1904, by Georgios Logothetis.