Lawrence Alma-Tadema worked at a period when the terms of art itself were being renegotiated.
The record lists Lawrence Alma-Tadema as Dutch-born British painter (1836–1912).
Lawrence Alma-Tadema was born at Dronryp in 1836. His recorded nationality is United Kingdom. He trained at Royal Academy of Fine Arts.
The nineteenth century broke the academy's authority: independent exhibitions, dealers and the beginnings of modernism.
He worked as painter, visual artist and illustrator.
His recorded movement is neo-pompeian.
Among his best-known works are The Roses of Heliogabalus, The women of Amphissa and Spring. An artist's reputation moves with taste, but the work stays exactly where it was left.
Recognition followed: Order of Saint Michael (1869), Royal Gold Medal (1906), Knight of the Legion of Honour (1873) and Order of Merit (1907).
That the work was made in United Kingdom shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Lawrence Alma-Tadema died in 1912, aged 76. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Order of Saint Michael — 1869
- Royal Gold Medal — 1906
- Knight of the Legion of Honour — 1873
- Order of Merit — 1907
- Knight of the Order of Leopold — 1866
- Notable work: The Roses of Heliogabalus
- Notable work: The women of Amphissa
- Notable work: Spring
- Notable work: Unconscious Rivals
- Movement: neo-Pompeian
