Biography for Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema

Education

Early education in Leeuwarden; Antwerp Academy in 1852, studied art under Wappers and De Keyser, and later under Baron Leys.

Member

Associate of the Old Water-Colour Society (1873); Member (1875); Associate of the Royal Academy (1876); Member (1879).

Awards

Chevalier of the Legion of Honour (1873); Knighted (1899); Order of Merit (1905).

Employment

Alma-Tadema lived in Brussels from 1865, travelling to London around 1869. He became a naturalised British subject in 1873. He painted themes from Ancient Greek and Roman history. Exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1869.