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Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836 - 1912) was active/lived in United Kingdom, Netherlands.  Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema is known for Classical-theme paintings, drawing.

Laurens Alma Tadema was born in 1836 in Holland. His parents thought art was no profession for a gentleman, and as a result, he worked himself into tuberculosis studying art and law at the same time. He became a British citizen, a Royal Academician and was knighted by Queen Victoria. Merchandised by a shrewd worldwide dealer, his work became hugely popular in that other burgeoning empire, the United States.

Alma-Tadema held the limelight in Britain and America, but until recently he has been unfamiliar in his native Holland. Dutch contemporaries had had no interest in his elaborate neo-Roman visions. Now, people from Holland are expressing appreciation of his technical mastery and his skill as a colorist.

After a visit to Pompeii, he focused on the life of ancient Greece and Rome, concentrating on the domestic and the homely rather than the dramatic. In London, after the death of his first wife, Alma-Tadema married Laura Epps, who appears in many of his pictures, along w   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2914 characters.]  Artist bio

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