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Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema (1836-1912)

A Favourite Custom (1909)
The Tate Gallery, London

Classicist painter, born in the Netherlands, but working most of his life in England.
During his lifetime, Alma Tadema's work was very popular with the public, but his reputation declined rapidly after his death.

Sappho and Alcaeus (1881)
The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore
Unconscious Rivals (1893)
Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, Bristol
A Reading from Homer (1885)
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia