He attended the Military Cadet School and then studied at the School of Arts in Athens (1874-1878). In 1885 he left with a scholarship for Munich, where he studied for two years at the Academy of Fine Arts. In Munich, he established a private school of painting, attended by several other Greeks, and his work was shown at the Kunstverein (1889, 1901) and at the Glaspalast (1898). He participated in the Paris Exposition Universelle (1900). In 1902, ill and a few months before his death, he returned to Greece. He initially produced genre paintings and portraits, and later specialised in naturalist still-life paintings.