Eretria Painter

He worked in the final quarter of the 5th century BC.

His paintings often depict many figures, moving in groups across all available surfaces.

He also painted such vessels as figure-shaped vases or head-shaped kantharoi.

Even as the vase shapes he painted on are unusual, his themes are conventional: athletes, satyrs and maenads, and mythological scenes.

A lekythos in New York shows a funeral scene, typical of white-ground painting: Achilles is mourning Patroclus; the nereids bring him new weapons.