Phrynos Painter

The Phrynos Painter was an Attic black-figure vase painter, active in Athens between c. 560 and 545 BC. He was allocated the conventional name Phrynos Painter after the potter Phrynos, as he had painted three cups signed by the latter:

• Boston, Museum of Fine Arts 03.855
• London, British Museum 1867.5-8.962 (B 424)
• Torgiano, Wine Museum A 15

The London cup is considered a masterpiece of the black-figure style. The Phrynos Painter belongs to the so-called Little masters; his paintings are very fine in detail and lively in style. Although a number of vases can be ascribed to him, his style is not yet fully understood.

• Amsterdam, Allard Pierson Museum 8192: Band cup
• London, British Museum 1909.2-16.2: Fragment of a Little-master cup
• London, British Museum 1948.8-15.13: Fragment of a Little-master cup
• Los Angeles, Oldknow collection: Lip cup
• Rome, Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia 50586: Merrythought cup
• Vatican, Museo Gregoriano Etrusco 16596 (Albizzati 317): Lip cup
• Würzburg, Martin-von-Wagner-Museum L 241: Belly amphora Type B

He also painted five small neck amphorae of the Botkin Class:

• Boston, Museum of Fine Arts 98.923
• Brussels, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts A 714
• St. Petersburg, Hermitage Museum 4464 (formerly Botkin Collection 1059)
• Milan 4636
• New York, Metropolitan Museum 64.11.13