Art & Antiques Archive - Page 4

Adrian Paul Allinson was a painter and a sculptor. After initially studying medicine, he went to the Slade where he came into contact with artists...

This drawing is a study of the lower right female figure in the painting Under the Roof of Blue Ionian Weather (1901, Swanson 400, Walker Art Galle...

Painted in the summer of 1896 The lovers’ tiff was a popular nineteenth-century theme suitable for depiction in any historical theme or settin...

Antistius Labeon (or Titidius Labeo, sometimes erroneously called Aterius Labeo), was a Roman amateur artist who lived during the reign of Vespasia...

Made after the drawing of May 1883, which the artist gave to Martinos Nijhoff of Amsterdam the same year. (Whereabouts unknown). Set in the 19th c...

This study is similar to the head of the central flower girl in Caracalla AD 211 (1902, Swanson 404, location unknown). The identity of Miss Barber...

Miss Raven-Hill was the sister of Leonard Raven-Hill, the painter, political cartoonist and illustrator. He had drawn a caricature of Alma-Tadema f...

Although unidentified, Miss James may well be a daughter or relative of the American author, Henry James, who was a friend of the family through La...

Sientje (or Siementje) Tadema was Alma-Tadema's cousin, the daughter of Zacharias Jeltes Tadema and Klaaske Canter Visscher. She came to Alma-Tadem...

This charming double portrait shows Laurense and Anna, the two daughters of Lawrence and Pauline Alma-Tadema. Laurense, the older of the two, was b...

This study is similar to the reclining female figure in Silver Favourites (1903) which was exhibited at the Manchester City Art Gallery. The loungi...

In 1896, Henry Blackburn invited Alma-Tadema to submit drawings of his Royal Academy exhibits for publication in The Academy Notes. After a thirty ...

This study of hands is related to A Peaceful Roman Wooing (1903, Swanson 408, location unknown). The hands are of a seated lady. There is another p...

As Alma-Tadema declared: 'I have always endeavoured in my pictures that the old Romans were human flesh and blood like ourselves, moved by the same...

Alma-Tadema travelled to Egypt in 1902 as guest of Sir John Aird to attend the opening of the Aswan Dam, which Aird's company had just built. Wins...

In the peristylum of a wealthy Pompeian villa, an Egyptian juggler performs his tricks before several patricians. Against the left wall can be seen...