Brief Biography-Theophilos Hatzimihail, known as Theophilos, was born c. 1869 near Mytilene, Lesbos. When he was eighteen, he worked at the Greek consulate in Smyrna, Turkey, as a gatekeeper for three years before settling in Ano Volos. He made a living doing murals for relatively low fees; however, he also received support from a landlord named Giannis Kontos. He returned to Mytilene in 1927 due to a prank that went wrong when he was thrown off a ladder and injured. People ridiculed him because of the traditional clothes he always wore. In Mytilene, he survived on subsistence handouts for his work. The art critic, Tériade, later recognised his talents and, in 1964, funded a museum dedicated to Theophilos in Vareia, Lesbos. The Louvre, Paris, exhibited his paintings a year after his death in 1934.