Table of Contents

Introduction * Part I: 1836-70, YOUTH, ART TRAINING, EARLY CAREER: 1. Holland Belgium, Merovingian Gaul; 2. Egypt; 3. Pompeii; 4. Greece and Rome * Part II: ESTABLISHMENT AND SUCCESS: 1. A Dutch Painter in London; 2. Into the Academy; 3. Landscapes, Portraits, Watercolours; 4. The Artist at Home * Part III: FINAL HONOURS AND THE END OF A CAREER: 1. Views of Antiquity; 2. The Theatre; 3. The Final Years; 4. Alma-Tadema in Retrospect * Notes * Bibliography * Index of Works * General Index * Acknowledgements

About the Author

Dr Rosemary Barrow is a Lecturer in Classics and Faculty of Arts Research Fellow at the University of Bristol. She completed her PhD thesis on Victorian classical-subject painting at King's College, London. She has lectured and published on Alma-Tadema and on Victorian classicism and is currently working on nineteenth-century constructions of decadence in the visual arts.

Reviews

"This book, like the paintings themselves, is a joy of immaculate and comprehensive research with a lavish attention to detail."—Arts Opinion"In this original and penetrating study, Rosemary Barrow presents a portrait of an exuberant personality who carved out a brilliant career at the heart of London's artistic and cultural elite."—The Argus"A penetrating study of one of the finest and most distinctive Victorian painters."—(Sotheby's Bookshop Brochure)"Scholarly and informative book..."—Times Literary Supplement"A fresh and sympathetic appraisal of this artist."—Daily Telegraph"This fascinating book, well-illustrated with fine colour reproductions will help to reasses his [Lawrence Alma-Tadema's] reputation in the 21st century."—Yorkshire Gazette"Barrow's anecdotal, academic and absorbing study of this Dutch-born Victorian painter breathes life into a man famous for his depictions of the imagined excesses, decadence and languid passion of the Roman Empire."—Antiques