Heraclides (painter)

Heraclides or Heracleides (‹See Tfd›Greek: Ἡρακλείδης) was a Macedonian painter, who was at first merely a marine painter of sea and ships, but afterwards acquired some distinction as a painter in encaustic. He lived in the time of Perseus, after whose fall he went to Athens (168 BC).

References

• Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology : Heracleides.28
• Pliny the Elder, Natural History, xxxv.135