Lawrence Alma Tadema showed his commitment and happiness with life in the UK having changed his birthname of Laurens to Lawrence in order to reflect where he now felt home to be.
This alternative look proved to be to the taste of the British art public who embraced his work with great passion and many British national galleries and museums now hold key paintings from his career. His work proved extremely popular with it's scenes from classical continental Europe with blue seas set against foregrounds of stunning women and stylish Roman architecture. Alma Tadema was trained at the Royal Academy of Antwerp before settling in England where he stayed for the rest of his life. The highly skilled Dutchman produced classic scenes which are instantly recognisable and covered highly detailed scenes from the Roman Empire. He began to build his reputation shortly after the artist moved to England following the Franco-Prussian war of 1870.
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