Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Lawrence Alma-Tadema

British painter

Date of Birth: 08-Jan-1836

Place of Birth: Dronryp, Friesland, Netherlands

Date of Death: 25-Jun-1912

Profession: painter

Nationality: Belgium, Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, (; born Lourens Alma Tadema Dutch pronunciation: ['l?ur?ns '?lma? 'ta?d??ma?]; 8 January 1836 – 25 June 1912) was a Dutch painter of special British denizenship.
Born in Dronrijp, the Netherlands, and trained at the Royal Academy of Antwerp, Belgium, he settled in England in 1870 and spent the rest of his life there.
A classical-subject painter, he became famous for his depictions of the luxury and decadence of the Roman Empire, with languorous figures set in fabulous marbled interiors or against a backdrop of dazzling blue Mediterranean Sea and sky.
Though admired during his lifetime for his draftsmanship and depictions of Classical antiquity, his work fell into disrepute after his death, and only since the 1960s has it been re-evaluated for its importance within nineteenth-century British art.



Alternative names	Lawrence Alma Tadema, Lourens Alma Tadema, Laurens Alma Tadema
Description	Dutch-British painter, draughtsman, etcher and illustrator
Date of birth/death	8 January 1836	25 June 1912
Location of birth/death	Dronryp	Wiesbaden
Work period	1851-1912
Work location	Antwerp (1852-1865), Leeuwarden (1855), Cologne (1861), Pompeii (1863-1864), Paris (1864), Brussels (1865-1870), London (1868, 1870-1912), Egypt (1902-1903)
Authority control	: Q240526 VIAF: 68986036 ISNI: 0000 0000 8148 3905 ULAN: 500008100 LCCN: n79060123 Open Library: OL5558878A WorldCat