N Painter

The N Painter was named after the potter Nikosthenes, as he worked in the latter's workshop and was his most important collaborator.

Modern scholarship assumes that N Painter painted all known Nikosthenic amphorae.

Some scholars suggest that N Painter and the potter Nikosthenes may be identical.

The vases painted by N Painter are mostly dated to the 530s and 520 BC.

Especially his larger figures are of considerable quality, while John Boardman condemns his smaller works as simply boring and sometimes sloppy, not very different from mass-produced wares.