Lawrence Alma-Tadema

1836–1912 · Realism

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema was a Dutch painter who later settled in the United Kingdom, becoming the last officially recognised denizen in 1873. Born in Dronryp, the Netherlands, and trained at the Royal Academy of Antwerp, Belgium, he settled in London, England in 1870 and spent the rest of his life there.

38 paintings

• Glaucus and Nydia (1867)
• Hopeful (1909)
• Preparations for the Festivities (The Floral Wreath) (1866)
• Portrait of Mrs. Ralph Sneyd (Mary Ellis Sneyd) (1889)
• Pine Trees in a Roman Park (1876)
• An eloquent silence (1890)
• Una carita (1883)
• Ons hoekje (Opus nr. CXVI) (1873)
• Onder een Romeinse boog (Opus nr. CXXXIX) (1874)
• Past and present generations (1894)
• Venantius Fortunatus reading his poems to Radegonda VI and the abbess in the monastery of Poitier (1862)
• A Roman studio (1874)
• Barbara Allison Armour (1826-1908) (1865)
• A Solicitation (1878)
• A kiss (1891)
• Silver Favourites
• The finding of Moses (1904)
• The Roses of Heliogabalus (1888)
• Antony and Cleopatra (1883)
• The Crossing of the River Berizina - 1812. (1860)
• Sappho and Alcaeus (1881)
• Cleopatra (1875)
• Phidias Showing the Frieze of the Parthenon to his Friends (1868)
• Cherries (1873)
• Mr. Soons (1857)
• Sunny Day (1874)
• Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour (1891)
• Unconscious Rivals (1893)
• Mountain landscape (1900)
• Comparison (1892)
• Education of the children of Clovis (1861)
• An Egyptian in a Doorway (1865)
• A Foregone Conclusion (1885)
• A Favourite Custom (1909)
• A Reading from Homer (1885)
• Death of the Pharaoh's Firstborn Son (1872)
• The Egyptian Widow (1872)
• Mary Magdalene (1854)