Tarporley Painter

The Tarporley Painter is his period's most important representative of the so-called "Plain Style".

He is considered to have been the pupil and successor of the Sisyphus Painter, as indicated by his elegant fine-limbed figures and the solemn facial expressions of his woman and cloaked youths.

He painted garments in a less balanced style then the Sisyphus Painter.

He painted especially on bell kraters, on which he often depicted dionysiac themes and theatrical scenes.

His work includes the first known phlyax vase, showing the punishment of a thief, accompanied by a metric verse inscription.