Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Depicted Roman luxury and decadence
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema was a Dutch painter of special British denizenship. Born in Dronrijp, the Netherlands, and trained at the Royal Academy of Antwerp, Belgium, he settled in England in 1870 and spent the rest of his life there. A classical-subject painter, he became famous for his depictions of the luxury and decadence of the Roman Empire, with languorous figures set in fabulous marbled interiors or against a backdrop of dazzling blue Mediterranean Sea and sky. Alma-Tadema was considered one of the most popular Victorian painters. Though admired during his lifetime for his draftsmanship and depictions of Classical antiquity, his work fell into disrepute after his death, and only since the 1960s has it been re-evaluated for its importance within nineteenth-century British art.
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Master student
- Gustaf Wappers Master
- John William Godward Student
- Jozef Van Lerius Master
- Laura Theresa Alma-Tadema Student
- Otto Eerelman Student
- Sientje Mesdag Van Houten Master
Fellow student
Artworks by this artist
- Mr. Soons 1857
- Vrouw en geit 1877 - 1903
- The Embarkation On The Barge
- Who Is It
- A Picture Gallery
- Fredegonda at the Deathbed of Praetextatus ca. 1864
- Naakte vrouw en een geharnaste ridder 1875
- The three graces
- Landschaft im Wienerwald ca. 1900
- Study for the Offering to Bacchus 1888
- The finding of Moses 1904
- The Death of the Pharaoh’s Firstborn Son 1872
- Liggende vrouw met tamboerijn 1900
- Pheidias And The Frieze Of The Parthenon 1868-69
- Spring Flowers
- An Art Lover 1868
- The Collector Of Pictures At The Time Of Augustus 1867
- Strijdende oude en jonge gymnasiast 1846 - 1912
- Cherries 1873
- Mountain landscape c. 1875-1912