Alma-Tadema was a Netherlands painter & draftsman who born January 8 1836- died June 28 1912 He trained at the Royal Academy of Antwerp, Belgium, Tadema go's to England in 1870 and spent the rest of his life there.He is A classical-subject painter, Tadema became famous for his depictions of the luxury and decadence of the Roman Empire, with languorous figure.
His work fell into disrepute after his death, and only since the 1960s has it been reevaluated for its importance within nineteenth-century English art.
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| Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema |
Biography:Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema was born as Laurens Alma Tadema on 8 January 1836, in the small village of Dronrijp, in Friesland in the north of the Netherlands.He was the sixth child of Pieter Jiltes Tadema.Lawrence Alma-Tadema was one of the most renowned painters of late nineteenth century Britain.
The Tadema family moved in 1838 to the near town of Leeuwarden, where Pieter’s position as a notary would be more lucrative.His father past when Laurens was four, leaving his mother with five children: Laurens, his sister, and three boys from his father’s first marriage. His mother had artistic leanings, and decided that drawing lessons should be incorporated into the children's education. Tadema received his first art training with a local drawing master hired to teach his older half-brothers.In 1851 at the age of fifteen he suffered a physical and mental breakdown. this illness given only a short time to live.
His famous works photo's under given below :
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