Pan Ioanid is the most famous personality from a family of painters that originated in Varna. Icon painters and church painters become, in the third generation, easel painters, exhibitors of Artistic Youth and of the official Bucharest Salons. Pan (Pandele), known mainly for the production of folk scenes, is an unequaled artist, capable of Grigoresian pastiches, but also of original compositions in the neo-impressionist style.

The son of the painter Gh. Ioanid, Pan (1878-1956) continued his father's artistic tradition. Known for 'Hore', weak in value, it also has national museum canvases.

The Ioannid dynasty was a family of painters that spoke for almost 150 years, and was the most popular exponent of Romanian painting, owner of a famous painting workshop on Calea Moșilor in Bucharest.

"I, Pan Ioanid, son of Gheorghe Ioanid, painter, grandson of Pericle Ioanid, painter, grandson of Gheorghe Stoinescu, painter from Pitesti, who had two sons: Ghiță and Nicu Stoinescu, painters, and I had: a brother, Ionel Ioanid, painter, a sister, Constanța, painter, and my children, Costin and Lucia, painters, who I believe will take revenge on the fate that stopped me from the path that had opened up to me so wide and bright..."