Exemplary

One of a series of paintings based on the comments made on the entry tags by the kind judges of the Martha's Vineyard Agricultural Fair. The judges comments are real, but the names and entries have been changed to protect the entrants!

MV Agricultural Fair entry from Claudia Metrodora (circa 54 – 68 AD) a Graeco-Roman public benefactor.

A resident of the island of Chios, Claudia Metrodora paid from her own finances to provide public meals, erected public baths, held the honorary rank of gymnasiarch on four occasions, provided supplies of liver oil twice for public consumption, and was honored as a basileia of the Ionian League.