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Lawrence Alma Tadema RA

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema RA, A Family Group (detail)

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> 5 years ago

How to read it: Lawrence Alma-Tadema RA’s A Family Group

This painting-within-a-painting by Lawrence Alma-Tadema depicts his artist wife and her siblings examining an earlier work by the couple, painted to symbolise their marriage.

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema RA, Miss Anna Alma-Tadema (detail)

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8 years ago

Object of the month: February 2015

A trip to Pompeii in Italy ignited a preoccupation with Classicism that spanned Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema RA’s career.
Lawrence Alma-Tadema RA, The Roses of Heliogabalus

Opinion

> 8 years ago

Lord Leighton RA and the Victorian ideal of female beauty

The Mexico-based businessman Juan Antonio Pérez Simón has amassed one of the world’s greatest collections of art. He talks to us about his love of Victorian art as his 19th-century masterpieces visit Leighton House Museum, the home of the former RA President.