Lawrence Alma-Tadema, artist and Royal Academician Size:Large: 7 x 5in Native American with a painted

Native American with a painted face

first Primate of England and head of the Anglican church

Plate 3 (right half detail) from Ichnographia speculae Regiae Grenovici exquisite facta (London

but measures to protect himself must be taken

Lawrence Alma-Tadema, artist and Royal Academician Size:Large: 7 x 5in Native American with a paintedLawrence Alma Tadema, artist and Royal Academician, 1881. Dutch born painter Alma Tadema (1836 1912) moved to London in 1870. He had exhibited two paintings at the Royal Academy the previous year, which had been very well received. He became a Royal Academician in 1879, and by the 1880s he was one of the most popular and famous artists in Britain, with clients including members of the British and Russian royal families. He specialised in idyllic