The BMN Painter was an Attic

Attica

Attica is a historical region of Greece, containing Athens, the current capital of Greece. The historical region is centered on the Attic peninsula, which projects into the Aegean Sea...

 vase painter in the black-figure style, active during the third quarter of the 6th century BC.
Initially, the BMN painter worked for the potter Lydos

Lydos

Lydos was an Attic vase painter in the black-figure style. Active between '’circa’’ 560 and 530 BC, he was the main representative of the '’’Lydos Group’’’ ....

. Of the collabrotaion between the two, a Band cup

Band cup

Band cups are a form of ancient Greek Attic Little-master cups.The lip of a band cup is black and slightly concave. At the joint between vase body and foot, there is often a red ring. The external figural decaration is in the area of the handles, often framed by palmettes. Internal images and...

 and a belly amphora are known. John Boardman

John Boardman

Jack Melton Boardman, commonly known as John Boardman, is an American former professor of physics at Brooklyn College.- Academic career :...

 sees the BMN painter as both the earliest and the best vase painters to collaborate with the important potter Nikosthenes

Nikosthenes

Nikosthenes was a potter of Greek black- and red-figure pottery in the time window 545-510 B.C. He is thought to have been associated with the work of the painters Oltos, Lydos, Epiktetos and the Nikosthenes-Painter....

. The earliest works by them are a Siana cup

Siana Cup

The term Siana cups describes a type of Attic cups decorated in the black-figure technique. They are named after one of their find locations, the necropolis of the ancient city of Siana on Rhodes. During the second quarter of the 6th century BC, Siana cups were the predominant cup shape in Athens...

 and several Little-master cup

Little-Master Cup

Little-master cups are a type of Attic black-figure cups, produced around the middle and third quarter of the sixth century BC. Their name is based on their fine small-format decoration....

s, including a lip cup

Lip Cup

Lip cups are a type of ancient Greek Attic Little-master cups.Lip cups were produced since the middle of the sixth centre BC in Athens. They resemble Gordion cups, but their lip or rim was more clearly distinguished from the rest of the body. They had high feet on broad bases...

 signed by Nikosthenes. The BMN Painter was the most significant representative of the Bellerophontes Class. He probably painted the majority of works by that grouping, including the name vase

Name vase

In classical archaeology, a name vase is a specific "vase" whose painter's name is unknown but whose workshop style has been identified. The painter is conventionally named after the selected "name vase" that embodies his characteristic style, or for one of its distinctive painted subjects, or for...

, depicting Bellerophontes fightinh the chimaira

Chimaira

Chimaira is an American heavy metal band from Cleveland, Ohio. Formed in 1998, the group is a notable member of the New Wave of American Heavy Metal scene. The band's name is derived from the word Chimera, a monstrous creature in Greek mythology...

. The abbreviation BMN that provides his covnetional name stands for British Museum

British Museum

The British Museum is a museum of human history and culture in London. Its collections, which number more than seven million objects, are amongst the largest and most comprehensive in the world and originate from all continents, illustrating and documenting the story of human culture from its...

and Nikosthenesand refers to his name vase, inventory B 295 in that museum.