Proto-genēs

Proto-genēs, a painter of ancient Greece, was born at Cannus in Caria, and practised his art at Rhodes, where he worked steadily on through the din of the siege of 305-304 B.C. A contemporary and friend of Apelles (q.v.), he was a slow and careful painter, sparing no pains to secure a natural and finished piece of workmanship. His best-known pictures were Ialysus (a Rhodian celebrity), a Satyr, 'Paralos and Ammonias' (sacred ships of the Athenians, executed for the Propylæa at Athens), 'The Thesmophœs' (for the Athenian senate-house), 'Alexander and Pan,' 'Cydippe and Tleptolemus,' and some portraits.