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He was the offspring of a Corfiot artists’ family, the grandson of the sculptor Pavlos Prossalentis Senior and the son of the painter Spyridon Prossalentis. He studied engineering in Paris. In 1874 he returned to Greece and served as an officer in the navy. From the mid-1880s he participated in group art exhibitions. He was interested in landscape painting – especially in seascapes – and historical scenes and figures. He made a substantial contribution to establishing the tradition of watercolour painting in the Ionian Islands.