Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema

Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Doğumu	8 Ocak 1836 Dronrijp, Hollanda
Ölümü	25 Haziran 1912 (76 yaşında) Wiesbaden, Almanya
Milliyeti	Hollanda kökenli İngiliz
Alanı	Resim
Akımı	Klasizm
Ödülleri	OM,RA

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, (8 Ocak, 1836, Dronrijp, Hollanda.- 25 Haziran, 1912 Wiesbaden, Almanya ) 19. yüzyıl ressamlarındandır.

Hayatı

Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1836 yılında Hollanda’da Dronrijp köyünde doğmuştur. Hollandalı bir noterin oğluydu. Ailesi baba mesleğini devam ettirmesini istese de Anvers Akademisi'ne sanat eğitimi almaya gönderirler. Akademide Hendrik Leys'in yanında 1852 - 1858 arasında sanat eğitimi alır. 1861 yılında "Clovis Çocuklarının Eğitimi" (The Education of the Children of Clovis ) adlı ilk büyük çalışmasını yapar ve ün kazanır. Diğer yıllarda tarihten esinlenerek çeşitli konulu resimler yapar.

1863 yılında İtalya gezisi sırasında Eski Yunan, Roma ve Mısır Sanatına ilgi duyar. Lirik, şiirsel anlatımla Antik günlük hayatını resmeder. Dönemin en tanınan ve beğenilen ressamlarındandır.

1863 yılında Fransız eşiyle birlikte Brüksel’e yerleşir. 1869 yılına kadar orda yaşar ve eşinin ölümünden sonra iki kızıyla Londra’ya gider. Ünlü bir ressam olarak Londra’da hayatı boyu yaşar. 1873 yılında İngiliz vatandaşlığına geçer ve 1899’da da sör lük unvanını alır. 1879 yılında Kral Akademisi’nin üyesi olur.

Galeri

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema Galerisi

Eserleri

• Spring 1894
• A Coign of Vantage 1895
• The Finding of Moses 1904
• The Women of Amphissa 1887
• The Roses of Heliogabalus 1888
• The Vintage Festival 1870
• Sappho and Alcaeus 1881
• A Difference of Opinion 1896
• Among the Ruins 1902-1904
• Hero 1898
• Portrait of Mme Bonnefoy and M. Puttemans 1867
• Maria Magdalena 1854
• Agrippina with the Ashes of Germanicus
• An Audience
• Bluebells
• Claudius Summoned
• The Discourse
• The Soldier of Marathon
• Silver Favorites 1903
• A Favorite Custom 1909
• After the Audience 1879
• A Sculpture Gallery 1867
• A Kiss 1891
• An Earthly Paradise 1891
• Phidias Showing the Frieze of the Parthenon to his Friends 1868
• The Frigidarium 1890
• The Triumph of Titus 1885
• Vain Courtship 1900
• The Baths of Caracalla 1899
• Egyptian Juggler 1870
• The Parting Kiss 1882
• Promise of Spring 1890
• Comparisons 1892
• Cherries 1873
• Flora 1877
• Strigils and Sponges 1879
• In the Tepidarium 1881
• Expectations 1885
• The Favourite Poet 1888
• A Dedication to Bacchus 1889
• Unconscious Rivals 1893
• Ask me no more 1906
• Caracalla and Geta 1909
• Antony and Cleopatra 1883
• A Reading from Homer 1885
• Preparation in the Coliseum 1912
• The Sculpture Gallery 1874
• Ninety-four in the Shade 1876
• A Greek Woman 1869
• Confidences 1869
• A Bath (An Antique Custom) 1876
• A Sculptor's Model 1877
• God Speed! 1893
• A Silent Greeting 1889
• The Conversion Of Paula By Saint Jerome 1898
• Joseph - Overseer of the Pharoah's Granaries 1874
• Shy
• Between Hope and Fear 1876
• A Female Figure Resting
• Death of the Pharaoh's Firstborn Son 1872
• Flag Of Truce
• A Birth Chamber, Seventeenth Century 1868
• Courtship
• A Family Group 1896
• Bacchanale 1871
• Summer Offering 1911
• Summer Offering 1911
• When Flowers Return 1911
• Hopeful 1909
• Caracalla 1902
• Interior of Caius Martius's House 1901
• A Listener 1899
• Mrs George Lewis and Her Daughter Elizabeth 1899
• Maurice Sens 1896
• The Colosseum 1896
• The Family Group 1896
• Love's Jewelled Fetter 1895
• Courtship - the Proposal 1892
• Love's Votaries 1891
• Portrait of Ignacy Jan Paderewski 1891
• Master John Parsons Millet 1889
• Always Welcome 1887
• Drawing Room, Holland Park 1887
• Mrs Frank D. Millet 1886
• The Drawing Room at Townshend House 1885
• Hadrian Visiting a Romano-British Pottery 1884
• Miss Alice Lewis 1884
• The Roman Potter 1884
• A Declaration 1883
• A Street Altar 1883
• Thou Rose of all the Roses 1883
• Xanthe and Phaon 1883
• An Oleander 1882
• Between Venus and Bacchus 1882
• Dolce Far Niente 1882
• Resting 1882
• The Way to the Temple 1882
• Pandora 1881
• A Harvest Festival 1880
• Ave, Caesar! Io, Saturnalia! 1880
• Interrupted 1880
• On the Road to the Temple of Ceres 1879
• Architecture in Ancient Rome 1877
• Autumn: Vintage Festival 1877
• Sculptors in Ancient Rome 1877
• Portrait of Aime-Jules Dalou, his Wife and Daughter 1876
• The Picture Gallery 1874
• This is our Corner 1873
• From An Absent One 1871
• In the Temple 1871
• A Roman Art Lover, 1870
• A Roman Art Lover, 1868
• The Flower Market 1868
• The Honeymoon 1868
• The Siesta 1868
• A Collection of Pictures at the Time of Augustus 1867
• My Studio 1867
• Proclaiming Claudius Emperor 1867
• Tarquinius Superbus 1867
• A Picture Gallery 1866
• In the Peristyle 1866
• Lesbia Weeping over a Sparrow 1866
• Preparations for the Festivities 1866
• Tibullus at Delia's 1866
• Catullus at Lesbia's 1865
• Egyptian Chess Players 1865
• Gallo-Roman Women 1865
• Leaving Church in the Fifteenth Century 1864
• Interior of the Church of San Clemente, Rome 1863
• Pastimes in Ancient Egyupe, 3,000 Years Ago 1863
• Venantius Fortunatus Reading His Poems to Radegonda VI 1862
• The Education of the Children of Clovis 1861
• The Roman Wine Tasters 1861
• The Death of Hippolytus 1860
• The Crossing of the River Berizina - 1812 1859-1869
• Faust and Marguerite 1857
• The Massacre of the Monks of Tamond 1855
• Self Portrait 1852
• A Prize For The Artists' Corp (Wine)
• A Roman Scribe Writing Dispatches
• Midday Slumbers
• Portrait Of Miss Laura Theresa Epps (Lady Alma-Tadema)
• Portrait Of Mrs Charles Wyllie
• Spring Flowers
• Sunshine
• Water Pets
• The Voice of Spring 1910
• A World of Their Own 1905
• Under the Roof of Blue Ionian Weather 1903
• Portrait of a Woman 1902
• The Year's at the Spring, all's right with the World 1902
• Unwelcome Confidences 1902
• Golden Hour 1897
• Self-Portrait 1896
• Whispering Noon 1896
• In My Studio 1893
• Who is it? 1884
• Portrait of Anna Alma-Tadema 1883
• Welcome Footsteps 1883
• Not at Home 1879
• Poetry 1879
• Portrait of the Singer George Henschel 1879
• Prose 1879
• A Hearty Welcome 1878
• In the Time of Constantine 1878
• Pleading 1876
• Exhausted Maenides after the Dance 1873-1874
• Pottery Painting 1871
• The Epps Family Screen 1870-1871
• A Pyrrhic Dance 1869
• An Exedra 1869
• Boating 1868
• Entrance to a Roman Theatre 1866

From: Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Header: [To Ballantyne]
Source: Don Kurtz
  Transcript:
  3/11 '83
My dear Ballantyne[,]
So glad to know you [are]
at your post again[.]
You know how much you
are needed there[.]
     yours very truly
       L.Alma Tadema
I had only three of those
things to sign [-] is that enough?