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The protagonist of the 18th-19th century Greek nautical history. The brig with its speed and flexibility, was the ship that broke the English blockades supplying the French ports with food and raw materials, bringing enormous wealth to the Greek sailors.

It was also the "humble" under-armed wheat-carrying vessel that eventually formed the core of the liberation fleet of 1821, which managed to keep the "high-and-mighty" Ottoman fleet at bay or on the run, much to the amazement of the overlooking European naval officers of the time.

His love and admiration for the craftsmanship and form of the sailing-ships of the past, coupled with the adventurous & somewhat magical atmosphere of the "age of sail" is what fuels the intriguing work of Panagiotis Mastrantonis. Born in 1940 in Piraeus, Greece and with family roots from the islands of Hydra and Ios, the sea and maritime scenery seems to have had a lasting underlying influence on his creative psyche. After studying freehand drawing at the Art School of George and Eleni Vakalo and architectural drawing at the Athens Technological Institute, he worked as a professional architectural modeler until 1995. Since then he engaged exclusively in drawing his sailing ship portraits, using a unique mixed technique of freehand...