Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema
(1836-1912), PainterSitter 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.
after Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema
photograph of painting, albumen print, 1890s
NPG P1273(17a)
'A Roman Artist by Alma-Tadema'
after Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema
photograph of watercolour, albumen print, 1890s
NPG P1273(17b)
Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour
by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema
oil on canvas, exhibited 1891
NPG 2949
by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema
oil on canvas, 1891
NPG 6213
Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour
by Minnie Lee Everett (M. Cormack), published by Paul and Dominic Colnaghi & Co, after Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema
mezzotint, published 25 May 1892
NPG D7484
Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour
by Minnie Lee Everett (M. Cormack), printed by Thomas Ross & Son, published by Paul and Dominic Colnaghi & Co, after Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema
mezzotint, published 25 May 1892
NPG D49666
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