ANNA ALMA-TADEMA

 

Post 190 -by Gautam Shah 

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SUNDAY Feature on ART of Architecture

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Anna Alma-Tadema (1867–1943), was a British (born in Brussels, Belgium) artist. She was the younger of the two daughters of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, a famous artist. She was schooled at home and taught to paint by her father and stepmother (also an accomplished artist).

Anna started painting at the age of Eighteen. She painted portraits, interior scenes, flowers and buildings, in pencil, pen-ink, chalk, water colour and oil paint. She inherited her father's ability to reproduce details and stepmother’s skill of composition. She painted more in oils towards the end of the nineteenth century, with a dramatic change in genre and style. Her work in 1900s, gained Impressionistic approach. She explored the depiction of surface light and texture. She was good at showing human emotions. Her paintings have a sense of contentment and quietude to them.

Anna Alma-Tadema was actively involved in Women's Suffrage Movement of 1897. Her sister Laurence, was a writer. The two sisters never married, and lived in poverty in later part of their life.

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