In January , we discussedSir Lawrence Alma - Tademaand one of his painting , " The Roses of Heliogabalus . " His second wife , Lady Laura Theresa Alma - Tadema , was also an accomplished artist . Since " Feel Art Again " has been suffering a dearth of female artists and saltation is almost upon us , now is a good time to take a feel at Lady Alma - Tadema ’s " conglomerate Pansies . "
1.Originally , Laura trained in medicine and those close to her " thought that she would show some originality as a composer . " She take up up painting upon meeting Lawrence Alma - Tadema , though , and became a successful painter or else . Her step - girl Anna and both her sisters , Emily and Ellen , were also painters .
2.Laura see Lawrence at the home of Madox Brown , under whom her baby Ellen was study . At the time , Laura was 17 and Lawrence was 33 , a recent widower , but he fall in love with her at first sight . After Lawrence relocated to England at the eruption of the Franco - Prussian War in 1870 , Laura began taking painting lessons with him , and it was during a lesson that he propose . They marry in 1871 , two years after they first met .
3.Unlike some creative person , Laura invite great identification during her lifetime . She was one of only two English adult female to exhibit at the Paris International Exhibition in 1878 . From the German government she welcome a Au medal in 1896 , when the Emperor bought one of her painting for the Empress .
4.As a well - respected creative person and as the wife of a successful artist , Laura was well - connected in the graphics Earth . She was frequently paint by Lawrence after their wedlock and both she and Lawrence , along withSir Edward Poynterand other contemporaries , are featured in Henry Jamyn Brooks ' picture , " Private purview of the Old Masters Exhibition , Royal Academy , 1888 . " She was also friend with Dante Gabriel Rossetti ( previously featuredon " palpate Art Again " ) .
5.Laura paint some classic field of study like those for which her husband was famous , but she specialized in sentimental domesticated and genre picture of woman and child . Most of her paintings are in seventeenth - century Dutch preferences .
6.Although Laura painted professionally for 35 yr , from her first winner at the Paris Salon in 1873 to her last , she produced only 100 sleep with signed works .
A large interlingual rendition of " accumulate Pansies " is availablehere .
" Feel Art Again " seem every Tuesday and Thursday .
trace , especially of pre-1900 distaff artist , are always welcome .
