Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, OM, RA (8 January 1836 – 25 June 1912)
was one of the most renowned painters of late nineteenth-century Britain.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.
