Antique Greek Eastern Orthodox Religious Painted Icon Egg Tempera 3 Saints 1780 Sold New York and began painting

New York and began painting at an early age

both in fine art museums &amp

The dresser base has corresponding lozenge shaped fruitwood inlays & the drawers and doors have 'kite' shaped fruitwood inlaid escutcheons/lock-plates

it produced windows for homes

Antique Greek Eastern Orthodox Religious Painted Icon Egg Tempera 3 Saints 1780 Sold New York and began paintingA good and large, late 18th century, Greek, Eastern Orthodox hand painted & gilded icon of three saints, circa 1780. This traditional Greek Orthodox icon is painted in the Byzantine style, using egg tempera paint on a poplar wood panel. The icon depicts three saints: Saint Charalambos, a bishop and patron saint of healing. Saint Simeon the Stylite to the center, who spent 37 years living atop a column or stylos, he is seen emerging from his pillar.