He studied in Austria with famous painters Heinrich Friedrich Füger, Johann Baptist Lampi and Hubert Maurer.

In 1780, following the Orlov Revolt and continued Russian involvement in Greece, supporters of Greek independence were persecuted, so his family fled to Iași, the capital of Moldavia, which, at that time, was under control of the Phanariots.

[5] His talent attracted attention so, in 1789, with the support of Alexander Ypsilantis, Voivode of Wallachia, he was able to go to Vienna to enroll at the Academy of Fine Arts.

Some of his best-known iconostases were those created for Saint Spyridon Church in 1813, one of which depicted an episode in the life of Metropolitan Veniamin Costache [ro], who had commissioned the work.

[7] He also created decorations for the Roman Episcopal Cathedral, at the request of Gherasim Clipa-Barbovschi [ro], the Bishop of Huși, and produced a few portraits of a non-religious nature; mostly of women.