Lawrence Alma-Tadema – part 3

Self-Portrait 1896 
oil on canvas 52.8 x 65.7 cm

Born in Dronrij, Holland, and trained at the Royal Academy of Antwerp, Belgium. He settled in England in 1870 and spent the rest of his life there. He became famous for his depictions of the luxury and decadence of the Roman Empire, with languorous figures set in fabulous marbled interiors or against a backdrop of dazzling blue Mediterranean Sea and sky.

Though admired during his lifetime for his draftsmanship and depictions of classical asubjects, his work fell out of favour after his death, and only since the 1960s has it been re-evaluated for its importance within nineteenth-century English art.

This is part 3 of a 3-part post on the works of Lawrence Alma-Tadema. For full biographical notes on Tadema see part 1. For earlier works see parts 1 - 2 also.

1885 A Reading from Homer 
oil on canvas 91.8 x 183.5 cm

1885 Dr. Washington Epps, My Doctor 
oil on canvas 64 x 51 cm

1885 Expectations 
oil on wood 45 x 66.1 cm

1885 The Drawing Room at Townshend House 
watercolour

1885 The Triumph of Titus AD 71 
oil on wood 44.3 x 29.1 cm

1886 An Apodyterium 
oil on wood 44.5 x 59.5 cm

1886 Ask me no more 
watercolour

1886 Mrs Frank D. Millet 
oil on canvas

1887 The Secret 
oil on wood 40.4 x 54.9 cm

1887 The Women of Amphissa 
oil on canvas 182.8 x 121.8 cm

1888 Favourite Poet 
oil on wood 38.6 x 51.5 cm

1888 The Roses of Heliogabalus 
oil on canvas 213.9 x 132.1 cm

1888c A Priestess of Apollo 
oil on canvas 34.9 x 29.8 cm

1889 A Dedication to Bacchus 
oil on canvas 77.5 x 177.5 cm

1889 A Silent Greeting 
oil on wood 56.3 x 48.7 cm

1889 Master John Parsons Millet 
oil on canvas

1890 Bluebells 
oil on canvas

1890 Promise of Spring 
oil on panel 38.1 x 22.5 cm

1890 The Frigidarium 
oil on canvas 59.7 x 45.1 cm

1891 A Kiss 
oil on canvas 62.9 x 45.7 cm

1891 An Earthly Paradise 
oil on canvas 165 x 86.5 cm

1891 Loves Votaries 
oil on canvas 87.6 x 165.7 cm

1892 Comparisons 
oil on canvas 46 x 61 cm

1892 Courtship ( The Proposal ) 
oil on canvas 39.2 x 35.5 cm

1892 The Poet Gallus Dreaming 
oil on wood 23.5 x 16.3 cm

1893 In my Studio 
oil on canvas 47 x 61.6 cm

1893 Unconscious Rivals 
oil on canvas 45.1 x 62.8 cm

1894 Spring 
oil on canvas 179.1 x 80 cm

1895 A Coign of Vantage 
oil on canvas 64 x 44.5 cm

1895 Love's Jewelled Fetter 
oil on canvas 63.5 x 46.1 cm

1896 A Difference of Opinion 
oil on canvas 22.9 x 38.1 cm

1896 A Family Group  
oil on wood 30.5 x 27.9 cm

1896 Maurice Sens 
oil on canvas

1896 The Coliseum 
oil on wood 112 x 73.6 cm

1897 Catherine, Duchess of Cleveland 
oil on canvas 64.8 x 52.1 cm

1897 Her eyes are with her thoughts 
oil on wood 22.9 x 38.2 cm

1898 Hero 
oil on canvas

1898 The Conversion of Paula by Saint Jerome 
oil on wood 112.7 x 50.8 cm

1899 A Listener 
oil on wood

1899 Mrs George Lewis and her Daughter Elizabeth 
oil on wood 76.2 x 68.9 cm

1899 The Baths of Caracalla 
oil on canvas 95.3 x 152.3 cm

1900 Flag of Truce 
oil on wood 44.5 x 22.2 cm

1900 Vain Courtship 
oil on canvas 41.3 x 77.5 cm

1902 Unwelcome Confidence 
oil on wood 47.5 x 28.5 cm cm

1903 Silver Favourites 
oil on canvas 69.1 x 42.2 cm

1903 Under the Roof of Blue Ionian Weather 
oil on wood 55.3 x 120.7 cm

1904 Among the Ruins 
oil on canvas 39 x 24 cm

1904 The Finding of Moses 
oil on canvas 137.5 x 213.4 cm

1906 Ask me no more 
oil on canvas 80.1 x 115.7 cm

1908 The Golden Hour 
oil on canvas 35.5 x 33.5 cm

1909 A Favourite Custom 
oil on wood 66 x 45.1 cm

1909 Caracalla and Geta, A Bear Fight in the Coliseum 
oil on canvas 123 x 154 cm

1909 Hopeful 
oil on canvas 86.4 x 33 cm

1911 When Flowers Return 
oil on wood 35.5 x 52.1 cm

1912 Cleopatra at the Temple of Isis at Philae ( unfinished ) 
oil on canvas 150.2 x 106.7 cm cm

1912 Preparation in the Coliseum 
oil on canvas 79.5 x 153.5 cm

Date? Courtship 
oil on canvas 55.9 x 25.4 cm