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Biography
Nikiforos Lytras 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.
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