Nicosthenes
1. A Greek painter, of whom we only know that he was the teacher of Theodorus of Samos, and of Stadieus. (Plin. Nat. 35.11. s. 40.42.) 2. A vase painter, several works of whose have been recently discovered. (Raoul-Rochette, Lettre à M. Schorn, p. 9.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.