Lawrence Alma-Tadema

Dutch by birth, Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (b. 1836, Dronrijp, The Netherlands - d. 1912, Wiesbaden, Germany) initially specialized in Merovingian and Egyptian scenes, but after visiting Pompeii in 1863 he turned to archaeologically exact genre paintings of classical Greece and Rome. The British publication Punch called him a "marbellous artist" because of his skill at paint...