Anna Alma-Tadema (1867–1943) was a British artist, the second daughter and pupil of the well-known Anglo-Dutch painter Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, born Laurens Tadema. Her mother Marie-Pauline Gressin Dumoulin, Laurens' first wife, died when she was two years old. She grew up in London, where her father had settled after leaving the continent. Her elder sister Laurence Alma-Tadema (born Laurense Tadema,1865–1940) became a novelist and poet, while her stepmother Laura Theresa Alma-Tadema (1852–1909), also a pupil of her husband, developed into an artist in her own right. Anna Alma-Tadema never married.
She appears at least twice in paintings by her father: the young girl left in the background in This is our corner[1] (1873, also known as Laurense and Anna Alma-Tadema, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam) and Miss Anna Alma-Tadema[2] (1883, also Portrait of Anna Alma-Tadema, Royal Academy of Arts, London). These paintings were used by her father to exemplify his abilities as a painter of portraits.[3]
A precocious teenager, Anna Alma-Tadema made watercolour paintings depicting the interior of the Alma-Tadema parental home: Townshend House, Tichfield Terrace, near Regent's Park in Londen, extravagantly decorated by her father to resemble a Roman villa. Her work was exhibited at the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893. Her work is considered to be related to academic classicism.
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