Artist: Alma-Tadema, Sir Lawrence Painting: Jean-Leon Gerome (mk23) Introduction: Painting Breathes Life into Sculpture 1893
Oil on canvas,50.1 x 68.8 cm(19 3/4 x 27 1/8 in)
Art Gallery of Ontario,Toronto
Artist: Alma-Tadema, Sir Lawrence Painting: Laura Alma-Tadema (mk23) Introduction: sunshine,n,d
Oil on canvas,61.5 x 39.5 cm(24 1/4 x 15 1/2 in)
Private collection
The Year ' s at the Spring (mk24) Painting ID:: 23013
Artist: Alma-Tadema, Sir Lawrence Painting: The Year ' s at the Spring (mk24) Introduction: All's right with the World
(1902)-late Victorian sentimentality in a vaguely antique setting
The melodrama of such works (mk24) Painting ID:: 23014
Artist: Alma-Tadema, Sir Lawrence Painting: The melodrama of such works (mk24) Introduction: Proclaiming Claudius Emperor (1867) was later supplanted by simple scenes of daily life
b.Jan. 8, 1836, Dronrijp, Netherlands.
d.June 25, 1912, Wiesbaden, Germany.
Painter and designer of Dutch birth. The son of a notary, Alma-Tadema demonstrated an early artistic ability. In 1852 he entered the Antwerp Academy, where he studied under Gustaf, Baron Wappers, and Nicaise de Keyser. An important influence at this time was Louis De Taye, Professor of Archaeology at the academy and a practising artist. Alma-Tadema lived and worked with De Taye from 1857 to 1859 and was encouraged by him to depict subjects from the early history of France and Belgium. This taste for historical themes increased when Alma-Tadema entered Baron Henri Leys studio in 1859 and began assisting him with his monumental frescoes for the Antwerp Town Hall. While in Leys studio, Alma-Tadema produced several major paintings, for example the Education of the Children of Clovis (1861; ex-Sir John Pender priv. col., see Zimmern, p. 3) and Venantius Fortunatus Reading his Poems to Radagonda (1862; Dordrecht, Dordrechts Mus.), which are characterized by their obscure Merovingian subject-matter, rather sombre colouring and close attention to detail.
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