Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema

A genial and uncomplicated man, Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema enjoyed his success and money, living an extravagant life-style at Townshend House in Tichfield Terrace, Regent's Park, which he redesigned to resemble a Pompeian villa. Alma-Tadema's life was an enormously successful one in which he was made a member of the Royal Academy, knighted and showered with honors from many countries. By 1911, however, his popularity began to wane. Realizing that his work was becoming unfashionable he resigned from the Royal Academy committee, after serving on it for thirty-one years. In the following year he went to take the waters at Wiesbaden, Germany where he suddenly became ill and died on June 25, 1912. His body was returned to England and interred in the crypt of St. Paul's Cathedral (London), where it lies in the company of fellow artists Millais, Holman Hunt and Lord Leighton.

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema Images:
A Coign Of Vantage
A Favourite Custom
An Apodyterium
Love's Votaries
Silver Favourites
Strigils And Sponges
The Baths of Caracalla
The Coliseum
The Favourite Poet
The Finding Of Moses
The Roses of Heliogabalus
Vain Courtship
Young Lovers