Pan Painter

John Beazley attributed over 150 vases to his hand in 1912: Cunning composition; rapid motion; quick deft draughtsmanship; strong and peculiar stylisation; a deliberate archaism, retaining old forms, but refining, refreshing, and galvanizing them; nothing noble or majestic, but grace, humour, vivacity, originality, and dramatic force: these are the qualities which mark the Boston krater, and which characterize the anonymous artist who, for the sake of convenience, may be called the 'master of the Boston Pan-vase', or, more briefly, 'the Pan-master'.

[1]Beazley identified the Pan Painter as a pupil of Myson,[2][3] teacher of the Mannerists (beginning around the 470s BC), a term applied (often pejoratively) to a group who used "mannered" depiction of figures for decorative effect.

[3] The Pan Painter depicted scenes from day-to-day life as well as Greek mythology, which were common subjects in red-figure painting.

The Pan Painter gives care to lines creating the clothing and the indent from one feather to the next on the edge of Nike's wings[11] (in New Jersey[12]).

On the other side is an older man holding rods in his hand, possibly ready to discipline the boy if he dropped the furniture.