![]() ![]() This however was not to be as at the age of fifteen, in 1851, he sadly had a mental and physical breakdown, and was told that he only had a matter of months to live with a diagnosis of consumption. She believed that all of her children should have art lessons and so Alma Tadema trained with a prestigious drawing master.Īlthough he became an accomplished artist himself, it was expected and assumed that he would become a lawyer. Lourens Alma Tadema gained his love of art from his mother who was an accomplished artist. He set his paintings in luxurious interiors that featured marble architecture and the Mediterranean Sea. The painting style that he is most famed for is that of his depictions of Roman life and namely that of the Roman Empire. ![]() In 1870 he relocated to England, and stayed there until his death. ![]() His artistic career began at the Royal Academy of Antwerp, that was located in Belgium. ![]()
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