Laura Theresa (née Epps), Lady Alma-Tadema; Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Laura Theresa (née Epps), Lady Alma-Tadema; Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema
by Lena Connell (later Beatrice Cundy)
bromide postcard print, 1905
4 3/8 in. x 3 1/8 in. (112 mm x 78 mm) image size
Given by Lady Berwick, 1967
Photographs Collection
NPG x47
Sittersback to top
- Laura Theresa (née Epps), Lady Alma-Tadema (1852-1909), Painter; second wife of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema; daughter of George Napoleon Epps. Sitter in 4 portraits, Artist or producer of 2 portraits.
- Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912), Painter. Sitter in 40 portraits, Artist or producer associated with 6 portraits.
Artistback to top
- Lena Connell (later Beatrice Cundy) (1875-1949), Photographer. Artist or producer associated with 20 portraits.
This portraitback to top
Alma-Tadema moved to London in 1870 upon the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War. He anglicised his forename from Lorenz and settled permanently after receiving his naturalisation documents from Queen Victoria in 1873. He had met Laura Epps during an initial visit to London in 1869, and in 1871 she became his second wife. They settled together in Townshend House, near Regent's Park. Alma-Tadema's first wife, Pauline Gressin, had died in 1869, leaving him with two daughters: Laurence (1865-1940), a writer, and Anna (1867-1943), an artist. Laura also became an accomplished painter in her own right, exhibiting regularly at the Royal Academy.
Linked publicationsback to top
- Lydia Miller; Samira Ahmed, Inspirational Women: Rediscovering stories in Art, Science and Social Reform, 2022, p. 36
Linked displays and exhibitionsback to top
- Artist and Evangelist: Lives Remembered (14 August 2012 - 24 March 2013)
Events of 1905back to top
Current affairs
Following turmoil over the issue of Free Trade, Balfour resigns and calls an election, believing that the Liberals will be defeated. However, he is mistaken and Henry Campbell-Bannerman replaces him as the Liberal government Prime Minister.The foundation of the Ulster Unionist Council, established to campaign against Home Rule, marks the birth of the Ulster Unionist party in Northern Ireland with the Duke of Abercorn as the first elected president.
Art and science
The Bloomsbury group of artists and intellectuals begin to hold informal gatherings at the home of Vanessa and Virginia Stephen. The group includes the artist Duncan Grant, biographer Lytton Strachey, and the art critics Clive Bell and Roger Fry.The German theoretical physicist Albert Einstein has his 'annus mirabilis', publishing groundbreaking papers on the nature of light and motion, including his relation of mass and energy in the equation e = mc2.
International
Massacre of more than 100 workers at a peaceful demonstration by troops in St Petersburg becomes known as 'Bloody Sunday'. The event sparks the 1905 Revolution, with uprisings and peasant revolts in other cities, leading the Tsar to issue the October Manifesto, pledging moderate reform, including the establishment of an elected 'duma' (government), which only partially appeases imperial opposition. Still fighting Japan, the internal agitation weakens the imperial army.Comments back to top
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