The Harrow Painter was an
ancient Greek
Ancient Greek includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Greek (), Dark Ages (), the Archaic p ...
painter of archaic
red-figure pottery. The painter was named by
John Beazley
Sir John Davidson Beazley, (; 13 September 1885 – 6 May 1970) was a British classical archaeologist and art historian, known for his classification of Attic vases by artistic style. He was Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art at the Un ...
after an
oinochoe
An oenochoe, also spelled oinochoe ( grc, οἰνοχόη; from grc, οἶνος ''oînos'', "wine" and grc, χέω ''khéō'', "I pour," sense "wine-pourer"; plural ''oinochoai''; New Latin ''oenochoë,'' plural ''oenochoae,'' English plura ...
in the
Old Speech Room Gallery collection of
Harrow School. The oinochoe shows a picture of a handsome boy holding a hoop. Thirty-nine vases have been attributed to the Harrow Painter.
The Perseus Project - The Harrow Painter
''Along with the Kleophrades Painter, the artist was the subject of one of Beazley's earliest articles, in which he attributed 39 vases to this "minor" pot-painter, whom he later called "a poorly-equipped painter whose ordinary employment was daubing cheap neck-amphorae column-kraters with dull and ill-drawn forms." These are harsh words, though not wholly inaccurate, for although he has been justly called "more than ordinarily competent," the Harrow Painter was indeed a minor talent, notwithstanding the undeniable charm of some of his works. If, however, one looks beyond the quality of his line and his relatively low standing in the artistic pantheon, one discovers in him many elements of interest and more than a few delightful pictures.
References
Sources
The Perseus Project - The Harrow Painter
External links
Neck of a terracotta oinochoe
attr. Harrow Painter at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
1st-millennium BC births
1st-millennium BC deaths
Ancient Greek vase painters
Anonymous artists of antiquity
Year of birth unknown
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