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Peiraikos.
Greek painter. He is known from one passage in Pliny (Natural History XXXV.112). A corrupt reference to a painter of ‘small art’ by Propertius (Elegies III.ix.12) may refer to Peiraikos but is generally restored to read Parrhasios. None of Peiraikos’ works survives. He was called rhyparagraphos, the painter of mean subjects. His pictures were painted with a brush, and his subjects included the shops of barbers and cobblers, food, perhaps in still-life, and humble animals such as asses. Although Pliny claimed that the painter’s reputation was limited by the small scale and insignificant subjects of his pictures, nevertheless his popularity was great, and his paintings sold for more than the large pictures of lesser artists.
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