LawrenceAlmaTadema (born Laurens Tadema) was Dutch, and only came to England when in his mid-30s, in 1869.
AlmaTadema is the archetypical Classicist painter, and at his peak rivalled Leighton in reputation.
AlmaTadema had many followers and imitators, the best of them such as John William Waterhouse, John Collier and the American Elihu Vedder developing the classical themes in their own way.
Pieter Tadema was the village notary from 1832 to 1837.
Bisschop's father had died when the boy was young, and as with Lawrence, his mother's acquiescence to her son's wishes to become an artist was deterred by strong-willed godfathers; both boys seemed condemned to take up mundane professions.
William van der Kooi, who died the year of Tadema's birth, was the most impressive Fries painter of the time and his firm and elegant portraits must have influenced the young man. Edmund Gosse 1883, p.76.
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