Anna Alma-Tadema was a British artist, daughter of painter Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema.
Background
She was influenced by her father, and showed her works at exhibitions with her father and step-mother, Laura Theresa Alma-Tadema. Anna Alma-Tadema was the second daughter of Dutch painter Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema and his French wife, Marie-Pauline Gressin de Boisgirard who lived in Brussels. Her older sister, Laurence, was born in 1864.
Her father married for a second time to Laura Epps in 1871, when Anna was four years old.
Career
She created drawings and paintings of portraits, interior scenes, flowers and buildings. The girls" mother died in 1869. Laurence received her education at home and it is believed that Anna was home-schooled, too.
She grew up in London.
Anna Alma-Tadema appears at least twice in paintings by her father. Anna"s mother, father, and step-mother were painters.
Lawrence was inspired by words from antiquity and developed a style that was emulated by Laura, Anna and other artists. Anna"s sister, Laurence was a poet, novelist, critic, playwright, and short story author
Alma-Tadema painted portraits, like Mission Tessa Gosse.
This and other works, like The Misty Valley and The Gold Room, were shown at the Royal Academy of Arts. She also made paintings of flowers, pencil and chalk portraits, and watercolor paintings of house interiors and buildings. Anna Alma-Tadema made watercolour paintings of the interior of the Alma-Tadema family house, Townshend House, Tichfield Terrace, near Regent"s Park in London.
lieutenant was extravagantly decorated by her father to resemble a Roman villa.
The Drawing Room, which she painted when she was a teenager, was exhibited in 1893 at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago. shown at the April 2011 Victoria and Albert Museum"s exhibition, The Cult of Beauty: The Aesthetic Movement 1860-1900 in London. The Gold Room, also made in 1885, was made of the house"s interior.
Alma-Tadema was described by biographer Helen Zimmem as a "delicate, dainty artist who has inherited so much of her father"s power for reproducing detail."
Alma-Tadema exhibited works in England from 1885 to 1928. Foreign instance, she exhibited The Idler"s Harvest at the Royal Academy in 1898.
The Women Painters of the World (1905) book by Walter Shaw Sparrow included her self-portrait.