His art is characterized by outlined or drawn imagery.
Achilles Painter, Athenian vase painter identified by and named for an amphora credited to him with a portrait of Achilles and Briseis. The amphora is now in the Rome Museums. His period of action corresponds with the Parthenon statues and with the government of Pericles. The Achilles Painter also is honored for his white-ground lekythos. The white-ground lekythoi are assumed to be the most trustworthy reference of data about great Greek paintings of the Roman period.