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Nikiforos Lytras (Greek: Νικηφόρος Λύτρας; 1832 – 13 June 1904) was a Greek painter.!

Nikiforos Lytras was born on the island of Tinos in 1832.

Greek painter, appropriately, Nikiforos Lytra places the scene at a rocky beach.

Nikiforos Lytras (Greek: Νικηφόρος Λύτρας; 1832 – 13 June 1904) was a Greek painter.

Later in 1860 on a scholarship from the Greek government he went to Munich to study at The Royal Academy of Fine Arts.

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Nikiphoros Lytras (Greek: Νικηφόρος Λύτρας; 1832, Pyrgos, Tinos – June 13, 1904, Athens) was a nineteenth century Greek painter. He was born in Tinos, and trained in Athens at the School of Arts. In 1860 he won a scholarship to Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Munich.

After completing these studies, he became a professor at the School of Arts in 1866, a position he held for the rest of his life. He remained faithful to the precepts and principles of the academaism of Munich, while paying greatest attention both to ethographic themes and portraiture.

His most famous portrait was of the royal couple, Otto and Amalia, and his most well-known landscape a depiction of the region of Lavrio.

Gallery

Amalia, Othon, Dance, Dream,

Funeral Flowers, The Milkman, Nun at a brazier, Monk, Mrs.

Saroglou, Laundry Day in a Athenian River,

The Kiss, Lady in White, Lady with a Glove, The wife of the artist at the easel, Couple,

Burning of the Turkish Flagship, Christos the niger, Fight