(b Kephallinia, 6 March 1787; d Corfu, 5 Dec 1825). Greek painter, architect and writer. Having first been an apprentice to his father, an icon painter, he studied painting in Zakynthos under Nikolaos Kantounis. Between 1809 and 1817 he studied architecture and painting in Rome and worked as a portrait painter in France. He travelled around Greece and Constantinople (now Istanbul) and made drawings of architectural monuments as well as watercolours of the various people he encountered—priests, noblemen and soldiers (album, Athens, N. Hist. Mus.). In 1820 he published a treatise on architecture and fine arts, and after 1821 he worked as an architect to the Russian Court. His portraits show a definite Venetian influence (e.g. portrait of Benakis, c. 1820; Athens, N.G.), and those of figures from the Ionian islands are of significant historical interest.