![]() ![]() A very great honour for someone who was not British by birth. After his death his body was buried in a crypt of St Paul's Cathedral in London. He would be the third Dutchman ever to be promoted to British nobility. Nobody could have ever suspected at the time that he would later become one of the most famous painters of the British empire and that, in 1899, he would even be knighted as 'Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema' by Queen Victoria. In the end it was the Royal Academy of Antwerp in Belgium, which did recognise his talent. Strikingly enough, after his school period, the 'Frisian' Lourens was not admitted to any of the Dutch art schools, which were located in the major Dutch cities. Self-portrait Lourens Alma Tadema at the age of sixteen, a gift to his mother, 1852Īlma Tadema world-famous except in the Netherlands ![]() Although it made more sense for Lourens to become a lawyer later on, his mother recognised his artistic talent and stimulated him to practice painting and sketching early in the morning, before going to school. After his death the Tadema family went through a difficult financial period. ![]() His father was a notary in the Frisian town of Donryp. In 1840 Lourens Tadema lost in his father at the age of 4. In this article, we tell you more about Alma Tadema's life, his paintings and especially his engravings, which are still for sale for the 'common' man nowadays. The few original engravings that have survived are nowadays sought-after collectors' items. Today, Alma Tadema's paintings hang in the most famous museums or are in the possession of important private collections.īesides paintings, Alma Tadema also produced and sold beautiful etchings and engravings during his lifetime. Even less people know that he was a world-famous Dutch painter during the Victorian period. Few people are familiar with the name Alma Tadema, better known as 'Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema'. ![]()
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