[3][4][5] Most of his career was spent up north in the Hapsburg Empire where his reputation rests as a Serbian painter of Greek-Aromanian origin.
[5] His works are to be found in Serbian Orthodox churches scattered across Croatia (Slavonia), Hungary and Vojvodina.
From the church registers, we know that Joan Çetiri lived in Osijek with his mother, brother, sister and six children.
He remained living in this town until his death and he signed most of his icons as the “inhabitant of Osijek” (stanovnik osečki).
He modeled notions of late medieval, so called “zoographic” painting which he brought from his native land and absorbed the much sought new, baroque style.