Highlight Tour of Lawrence Alma-Tadema Sappho and Alcaeus Only since the 1960s has it been re-evaluated for its importance within nineteenth-century British art. Though admired during his lifetime for his skills in the depictions of Classical antiquity, his work fell into disrepute after his death. In London, Alma-Tadema found a ready market among the wealthy middle classes for paintings re-creating scenes of domestic life in imperial Roman times and Ancient Greek views. Lawrence Alma-Tadema was a painter of classical-subjects, he became famous for his depictions of the decadence of the Roman Empire, with languorous figures set in fabulous marbled interiors or against a backdrop of the blue Mediterranean Sea and sky. Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836 – 1912) was a Dutch painter with special British denizenship (permanent residency).īorn in the Netherlands, and trained at the Royal Academy of Antwerp, he settled in England in 1870 and spent the rest of his life there.
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