It is not agreed who was the inventor of the art of painting in wax and in encaustic.2095 Some think that it was a discovery of the painter Aristides,2096 and that it was afterwards brought to perfection by Praxiteles: but there are encaustic paintings in existence, of a somewhat prior date to them, those by Polygnotus,2097 for example, and by Nicanor and Arcesilaüs,2098 natives of Paros. Elasippus too, has inscribed upon a picture of his at Ægina, the word ἐνέκαεν;2099 a thing that he certainly could not have done, if the art of encaustic painting had not been then invented.