Helena
Flourished circa 350 B.C.E., ancient Greece
According to traditional sources, Helena was a painter in fourth-century B.C.E. Greece, known best for a painting she did of the Battle of Issus. The famous Alexander mosaic at Pompeii, which depicts Alexander’s defeat of Darius at the Battle of Issus, may be a copy of Helena’s painting, but it has also been linked to the work of another painter, Philoxenus of Eretria.
Battle of Issus, House of the Faun, Pompeii, 1st century B.C.E. Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples