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Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema was a Dutch painter who later settled in the United Kingdom, becoming the last officially recognised denizen in 1873. Born in Dronryp, the Netherlands, and trained at the Royal Academy of Antwerp, Belgium, he settled in London, England in 1870 and spent the rest of his life there.
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Born 8 January 1836 · Died 25 June 1912 · Q240526
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“Where else should I have begun as soon as I had become acquainted with the life of the ancients? The first thing a child learns of ancient history is about the court of Pharaoh; and if we go back to the source of art and science, must we not return to Egypt?”
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A blue plaque was unveiled in his honour
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New York art dealer Robert Isaacson mounted the first show of Alma-Tadema's work in fifty years, and by the late 1960s, the revival of interest in Victorian painting gained impetus with a number of well-attended exhibiti
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The Newman Gallery was unable to sell, or even give away, one of his most celebrated works, The Finding of Moses (1904)
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Died 1912-06-25.
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Career landmark: Participated in 9th Venice Biennale (tournament / event).
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Awarded Order of Merit (1907).
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To ensure his paintings of antiquity would reflect the lifestyle of residents of the Greco-Roman world accurately
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Won Royal Gold Medal (1906).
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And subsequent sales were for £861 in 1935, £265 in 1942, and it was "bought in" at £252 in 1960 (having failed to meet its reserve)
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When Alma-Tadema's prices were actually higher, it was sold again without rights for £2,625
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Awarded Knight Bachelor (1899).
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Career landmark: Participated in 3rd Venice Biennale (tournament / event).
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Was knighted by Britain, only the eighth artist from the Continent to receive this honour
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Career landmark: Participated in 2nd Venice Biennale (tournament / event).
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Career landmark: Participated in 1st Venice Biennale (tournament / event).
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And the Great Gold Medal at the International Exposition in Brussels of 1897
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Returned to Rome and Pompeii, where further excavations had taken place since his last visit
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Awarded Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order (1881).
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Awarded 3rd Class Order of the Crown (1877).
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Awarded Order of the Gold Lion of the House of Nassau (1876).
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Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (1873).
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Queen Victoria in Council by letters patent made Alma-Tadema and his wife the last British denizens, with some limited special rights otherwise only accorded to and enjoyed by British subjects; while the legal process ha
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Alma-Tadema organised his paintings into an identification system by including an opus number under his signature and assigning his earlier pictures numbers as well
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Awarded Order of Saint Michael (1869).
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And exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1871 under the title The Grand Chamberlain to Sesostris the Great
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Awarded Order of the Netherlands Lion (1868).
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Awarded Knight of the Order of Leopold (1866).
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Tadema relocated to Brussels where he was named a knight of the Order of Leopold
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Alma-Tadema left Leys's studio and started his own career, establishing himself as a significant classical-subject artist
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Befriended the Anglo-Dutch Dommersen family of artists in Utrecht
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But later destroyed by the artist, and The Sad Father or The Unfavourable Oracle (Opus X), painted in 1858
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Entered the Royal Academy of Antwerp in Belgium where he studied early Dutch and Flemish art, under Gustaf Wappers
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Is numbered opus I, while two months before his death he completed Preparations in the Coliseum, opus CCCCVIII
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At the age of fifteen he suffered a physical and mental breakdown
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To the nearby city of Leeuwarden, where Pieter's position as a notary would be more lucrative
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Born 1836-01-08.
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