Brief Biography-Konstantinos Volanakis was a renowned maritime painter from Heraklion, Crete. Volanakis finished his studies in the Greek School of Ermoupolis in Syros before going to Trieste to work as an accountant. His talents were recognised there, and his family sent him to the Munich Academy of Fine Arts in 1864. He studied alongside Georgios Jakobides, Nikiforos Lytras and Nikolas Gyzis, under the tuition of Karl von Piloty. After a successful career as a maritime artist in the Austrian navy and painting in Munich and Vienna, he returned to Greece in 1883. He became a teacher at the Athens School of Fine Arts until 1903, from that year onward his fortunes waned and he died in Piraeus in 1907.