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Auction: 16043 - Autographs, Historical Documents, Ephemera and Postal History
Lot: 72

Documents
Lawrence Alma-Tadema
1888 (15 November) post card with raised letterhead of Grove End Road, A.L.S. written in German to Herr Werkmeister informing him that that a package will be available for examination at his (Alma-Tadema’s) home on Saturday afternoon between 3 and 3.30 p.m., signed "L Alma Tadema". Slight traces of mounting on reverse, otherwise fresh and fine. Photo

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema OM RA (1836 – 1912). Born in Dronrijp, the Netherlands, and trained at the Royal Academy of Antwerp, Belgium, he settled in England in 1870 and spent the rest of his life there. A classical-subject painter, 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 antiquity, his work fell into disrepute after his death, and only since the 1960s has it been re-evaluated for its importance within nineteenth-century English art.

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Estimate
£100 to £120