Lawrence Alma-Tadema

Lawrence Alma-Tadema
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(1836–1912) nederländskfödd brittisk målare

Lawrence Alma-Tadema (Flanders/Belgium, 1836–1912) is listed in the catalogue as a painter, a printmaker, and a draughtsman. By year of birth, Lawrence Alma-Tadema belongs to the chapter ‘Impressionism’ in this site’s history of art.

Lawrence Alma-Tadema was born in Dronryp and died in Wiesbaden. Lawrence Alma-Tadema trained at Royal Academy of Fine Arts. Wikidata associates Lawrence Alma-Tadema with neo-Pompeian. Lawrence Alma-Tadema became a member of Royal Academy of Arts, Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium, and Académie des beaux-arts. The awards include Order of Saint Michael, Royal Gold Medal, Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order, and Knight of the Legion of Honour.

The best-known works include ‘The Roses of Heliogabalus’, ‘The women of Amphissa’, ‘Spring’, and ‘Unconscious Rivals’. The works belong mainly to the genre history painting. The catalogue has 171 works by Lawrence Alma-Tadema with free images. The dated works span the years 1851–1911. Works by Lawrence Alma-Tadema are held by several collections, among them Fries Museum, Royal Academy of Arts, Walters Art Museum, and Clark Art Institute. Wikidata links 9 works to movements covered in the chapter ‘Realism’.

Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Albijn van den Abeele, Adriano Cecioni, Alexander Helwig Wyant, Władysław Malecki, and Joaquín Agrasot y Juan.