

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.
More Artwork by Lawrence Alma-Tadema (View all 52 Artworks)

The Death of the Pharaoh’s Firstborn Son (1872)

Under The Roof Of Blue Ionian Weather

A Favourite Custom (1909)

Sappho and Alcaeus (1881)

Mary Magdalene (1854)

La Siesta O Escena Pompeyana

The three graces

Faust and Marguerite, Opus VII (1857)
More Artwork by Lawrence Alma-Tadema (View all 52 Artworks)

The Death of the Pharaoh’s Firstborn Son (1872)

Under The Roof Of Blue Ionian Weather

A Favourite Custom (1909)

Sappho and Alcaeus (1881)

Mary Magdalene (1854)
