2-982-041 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

New Associates of the Royal Academy: Mr. Alma Tadema, A.R.A., 1876. Engraving from a photograph by Fradelle and Marshall of Regent-street. 'This distinguished artist, who, after acquiring a Continental reputation, has become naturalised among us (having received letters of denization from the Queen in 1873), was born at Dromyp, in the Netherlands...He received his artistic education in the Royal Academy of Antwerp, and completed his studies under Baron H. Leys. The influence of that Belgian master is evident in Mr. Alma Tadema's works, both as regards colouring and fondness for archaeological detail; but instead of confining himself to the pictorial revival of Medieval Flemish life, the living artist has "restored," so to speak, the classical glories of Greece and Rome, and the still earlier civilisation of ancient Egypt, and that with a learning and vraisemblance which have not been surpassed'. From "Illustrated London News", 1876.