Portrait of a Young Greek Woman by Theodoros Patros Vryzakis sold for €175,000 (£150,860) at Neumeister on December 4.
When Theodoros Patros Vryzakis (1814-78) was only a young boy, his father was executed by the Turks during the Greek War of Independence.
In 1832, at the age of 18, he travelled to Munich where he enrolled at a school established by the Bavarian King Ludwig I for Greek war orphans. Afterwards he trained at the Munich art academy and embarked on a highly successful career as a painter, devoting himself largely to portraying scenes from Greek life and history, in particular from the war that had cost his father his life.