Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema
(1836-1912), PainterLater Victorian Portraits Catalogue Entry
Sitter in 40 portraits
Artist associated with 6 portraits
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema was a painter. Born in Holland and trained in Antwerp, he exhibited at the Paris Salon and the Royal Academy. Alma-Tadema moved to London in 1870. He specialised in highly finished classical scenes of painstaking archaeological detail. While his artistic output decreased in his final years, the quality and ambition of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema's paintings remained. Having devised a system of opus numbers for his more substantial works, the painting completed two months before his death numbered 408. He died in Germany while being treated for a stomach ulcer, and was buried in St Paul's Cathedral. A memorial exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts was organised in 1913.
by Alexander Bassano
half-plate glass negative, 1882
NPG x96474
by Alexander Bassano
half-plate glass negative, 1882
NPG x96473
by and published by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, after Frank Dudman, for Joseph Parkin Mayall
photogravure, circa 1883, published 1884
NPG Ax27822
by Maclure, Macdonald & Co, after Walery
photogravure, (1888 or before)
NPG x46
by Walery, published by Sampson Low & Co
carbon print, published November 1888
NPG Ax9107
by E.H. Mills, published by Ogden's
cigarette card, 1890-1894, published circa 1894-1907
NPG x136474
published by Berlin Photographic Co
photogravure, published 1895
NPG x199109
by Fradelle & Young
carbon print, 4 November 1899
NPG x19022
by James Russell & Sons, published by Virtue & Co
photogravure, 1900s
NPG x136611
published by Ogden's
cigarette card, circa 1902, published 1902-1907
NPG x136544
Laura Theresa (née Epps), Lady Alma-Tadema; Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema
by Lena Connell (later Beatrice Cundy)
bromide postcard print, 1905
NPG x47
by Unknown photographer
platinum print, before 1907
NPG x19016
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema ('Men of the Day. No. 197.')
by Carlo Pellegrini
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 22 March 1879
NPG D43895
by Paul Adolphe Rajon
etching, published 1883
NPG D7343
by Paul Adolphe Rajon
etching, published 1883
NPG D7344
by Paul Adolphe Rajon
etching, published 1883
NPG D7345
by John Elmsly Inglis
line engraving and etching, 1883 or after
NPG D9588
after Charles Paul Renouard
wood engraving, published by Harper's Bazar 14 July 1888
NPG D42460
Key to Private View of the Old Masters Exhibition, Royal Academy, 1888
after Henry Jamyn Brooks
photograph, 1919 or after
NPG D42236
by Walery, published by Sampson Low & Co
carbon print, published November 1888
NPG x6020
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