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On 8th January 1836 Lawrence Alma-Tadema was born in the small village of Dronrijp in Friesland in the north of Holland, the third child of Pieter Jiltes Tadema (1797-1840), the village notary, and Hinke Dirks Brouwer (c.1800-63). Pieter Tadema already had three sons by his first wife, Artje Dirks Brouwer, after whose death he married Artje's half-sister, Hinke. Tadema was a traditional Friesian name, while the names Lourens and Alma belonged to the boy's godfather. Christened Lourens, he changed the spelling to Laurens while living in Antwerp and anglicized the name to Lawrence after he moved to Britain in 1870. He adopted the surname Alma-Tadema so that his paintings would be listed first in alphabetical catalogues. See "Lawrence Alma-Tadema" by Rosemary Barrow published 2001, page 10.
1861. Lawrence Alma-Tadema. "The Education of the Children of Clovis".
1863. Lawrence Alma-Tadema. A portrait of the artist's daughters Laurense and [his daughter] Anna Alma-Tadema.
On 3rd January 1863 Lawrence Alma-Tadema and Marie-Pauline Gressin-Dumoulin were married at the City Hall in Antwerp.
1865. Lawrence Alma-Tadema. "Egyptian Chess Players".
1865. Lawrence Alma-Tadema. "The Mirror".
1866. Lawrence Alma-Tadema. "Preparations for the Festivities".
On 16th May 1867 Anna Alma-Tadema was born to Lawrence Alma-Tadema and Marie-Pauline Gressin-Dumoulin.
Letters of Christina Rossetti. 56 Euston Square, N.W.
Friday afternoon, 14th. [May 1869]1
My dear Miss Boyd (age 44)
Thank you warmly for so exceedingly kind an invitation, concerning which I will only put forward one regret, that Mrs Epps [Note. Not clear who Mrs Epps is since [his future wife] Laura Theresa Epps didn't marry Lawrence Alma-Tadema until 1871] should lose what might so have refreshed her both in mind and in body. And indeed, if I may, I will say that should it after all turn out that she could visit lovely Penkill you will without hesitation let me know your altered plans to which I shall most readily conform mine. On the other hand if I go, it will be a special indulgence to travel with the Scotts [Note. William Bell Scott (age 58) and Letitia Margery Norquoy] and as you give me so generous a latitude I will even feel housed at the Castle until a companion offers with whom to start south again;-the journey being somewhat formidably lengthy. But this, of course, only in case it brings my visit within not altogether unreasonable dimensions. How very kind you are to me, and how much I should like to make my gratitude obvious to you. Knowing what a Dear Mrs Scott is, I think she will kindly let me know her plans in due course: meanwhile I expect to run down to Gloucester next week on a little visit to my Uncle if he will have me, but to be up again in time for Penkill.
My love, please, to Mrs Scott, and a kindred sentiment to Mr Scott. We saw Gabriel (age 41) last night, but I know nothing at all about his summer plans.2
My Mother (age 69) desires her most cordial remembrances to you, and adds her thanks to mine on my behalf.
Always and affectionately yours
Christina G. Rossetti (age 38).
I expect you will find me quite a different order of being this year as regards walking, and I mean to trim up my old hat for possible croquet.
Note 1. Endorsed: "1867." CGR returned to Penkill in 1869, from 9 June to 22 July, not in 1867.
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In July 1871 Lawrence Alma-Tadema and Laura Theresa Epps were married.
1876. Lawrence Alma-Tadema. Portrait of [his wife] Laura Theresa Epps.
1877. Lawrence Alma-Tadema. Portrait of Henry Thompson 2nd Baronet (age 17).
Henry Thompson 2nd Baronet: On 2nd April 1859 he was born to Henry Thompson 1st Baronet. On 18th April 1904 Henry Thompson 1st Baronet died. His son Henry succeeded 2nd Baronet Thompson of Wimpole Street in London. On 26th May 1944 he died. Baronet Thompson of Wimpole Street in London extinct.
1878. Lawrence Alma-Tadema. Portrait of Henry Thompson 1st Baronet.
1881. Lawrence Alma-Tadema. "The Tepidarium".
1881. Lawrence Alma-Tadema. "Sappho and Alcaeus". It depicts a concert in the late 7th century BC, with the poet Alcaeus of Mytilene playing the kithara. In the audience is fellow Lesbos poet Sappho, accompanied by several of her female friends. Sappho is paying close attention to the performance, resting her arm on a cushion which bears a laurel wreath, presumably intended for the performer. The painting is based on Athenaeus' "The Deipnosophists" Book 13 Chapter 7:
With the fond love of Lesbian Alcæus,
Who sang the praises of the amorous Sappho,
And grieved his Teian rival, breathing songs
Such as the nightingale would gladly imitate;
1883. Lawrence Alma-Tadema. Portrait of Catherine Lucy Wilhelmina Stanhope Duchess of Cleveland (age 63).
1885. Lawrence Alma-Tadema. Portrait of the artist's daughter [his daughter] Anna Alma-Tadema (age 17).
1885. Lawrence Alma-Tadema. "The Meeting of Antony and Cleopatra".
1888. Lawrence Alma-Tadema. "The Roses of Heliogabalus". The painting depicts a, probably invented, episode in the life of the Roman emperor Elagabalus, also known as Heliogabalus, taken from the Augustan History. Alma-Tadema depicts Elagabalus smothering his unsuspecting guests with rose petals released from a false ceiling. The original references are:
He used to strew roses and all manner of flowers ... over his banqueting-rooms, his couches and his porticoes.
In a banqueting-room with a reversible ceiling he once buried his guests in violets and other flowers, so that some were actually smothered to death, being unable to crawl out to the top.
Stravit et triclinia de rosa et lectos et porticus.
Oppressit in tricliniis versatilibus parasitos suos violis et floribus, sic ut animam aliqui efflaverint, cum erepere ad summum non possent.
The painting was commissioned by Sir John Aird (age 54), 1st Baronet for £4,000 in 1888.
1890. Lawrence Alma-Tadema. "An Eloquent Silence".
Around 1891. Lawrence Alma-Tadema. "Pandora". About to open the box - see Hesiod's Works and Days Lines 83 to 108 lines 90-94.
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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
The Royal Academy Conversazione, 1891, by George Henry Grenville Manton.
John Seymour Lucas, Dame Alice Ellen Terry (age 43), Sir William Quiller Orchardson, Rachel, Countess of Dudley (age 23), Marcus Stone, Henry Stacy Marks, Sir Henry Irving, Unidentified man, Unidentified man, Sir John Everett Millais (age 61), William Charles Thomas Dobson.
Unidentified woman, James Sant, William Powell Frith, Sir Hubert von Herkomer, Unidentified woman, Briton Riviere, Unidentified man, John Pettie, Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Frederic Leighton (age 60), Baron Leighton.
Philip Hermogenes Calderon, Walter William Ouless, Thomas Faed, Robert Walker Macbeth, Edward Onslow Ford (age 38), William Frederick Yeames, Unidentified woman, Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones (age 57), Unidentified man.
Mary Anderson, John Calcott Horsley, possibly Joanna Margaret Hadley, Unidentified man, Henry Tanworth Wells, possibly Alice Joanna Street, Marion Harry Spielmann, Unidentified woman.
Around 1891. Lawrence Alma-Tadema. "Interrupted". Portrait of [his wife] Laura Theresa Epps.
Around 1891. Lawrence Alma-Tadema. Portrait of Arthur James Balfour 1st Earl Balfour (age 42).
1893. Lawrence Alma-Tadema. "Unconscious Rivals ". The work was displayed at the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition of 1893 at Burlington House in London. Today the painting is in the collection of the City Museum and Art Gallery in Bristol, having been acquired in 1935.
1894. Lawrence Alma-Tadema. "Spring".
1896. Lawrence Alma-Tadema. Self-Portrait.
1903. Lawrence Alma-Tadema. "Silver Favourites".
1904. Lawrence Alma-Tadema. "The Finding of Moses".
On 15th August 1909 [his wife] Laura Theresa Epps died.
On 25th June 1912 Lawrence Alma-Tadema died at Kaiserhof Spa, Wiesbaden, Germany where he had travelled with his daughter Anna for treatment of his stomach ulcers. He was buried in the crypt of St Paul's Cathedral [Map].