biography
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Alma-Tadema, Sir Lawrence
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pronunciation:
[alma tadema]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1836–1912)
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| biography:
| Painter of Classical-genre paintings, born in Dronrijp, The Netherlands. He studied at the Antwerp Academy of Art, and came to specialize in subjects from Greek, Roman, and Egyptian antiquity. He achieved great popularity with such Classical idyllic scenes as ‘Tarquinius Superbus’ (1867) and ‘The Conversion of Paula’ (1898). He was a painstaking technician and spared no expense. For ‘The Roses of Heliogabalus’ (exhibited Royal Academy, 1896), fresh roses were sent weekly from the S of France so that every petal - and the picture contains thousands - could be depicted accurately. He settled permanently in England in 1873, and was knighted in 1899. |
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