About the artist

He studied at the School of Arts in Athens (1864-1871) and in 1872 moved to Brussels. In 1878 he held a solo exhibition organised by the Art and Letters Circle in Brussels; he also participated in the Exposition Universelle in Paris. In 1880 he travelled to southern France and Greece, and in the following year participated in a charity exhibition for the benefit of the Red Cross in Athens. In early 1881 he returned to Brussels and soon after had symptoms of tuberculosis. In Belgium he became a founding member of the ‘Chrysalis Circle’ (1875), where he showed his work (1876-1878, 1881), the Circle of Watercolourists and Printmakers (1883) and Les XX, whose first exhibition, in 1884, featured works by the artist, who had died just a few days earlier. Joining the explorations of the European avant-garde in the late 19th century, the artist developed his idiom under the influence of Realism and pre-Impressionist tendencies. His subject matter was everyday scenes, still-life paintings, portraits and landscapes.