Edinburgh Painter

The Edinburgh Painter was an Attic black-figure vase painter, active around 500 BC. His speciality was white-ground lekythoi painted in the black-figure style.

Edinburgh Painter
Possibly Aias Telamonios and Odysseus fighting over Achilles' weapons, painting by the Edinburgh Painter. White-ground Attic lekythos, c. 500 BC, from Eretria.
Born
Unknown. Named from one of his vases in the Edinburgh Museum.

Before 545 BC
Probably Athens
NationalityAthenian
Known forVase painting
MovementBlack-figure style

His real name is unknown. His conventional name is derived from his name vase in Edinburgh, National Museum of Scotland 1956.436.

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