![]() On this occasion, the landscape is only in Surrey, but he also painted these when in mainland Europe. This shows his daughter Anna in what could be seen as the closest that he came to Impressionism, and was perhaps modelled after one of Monet’s paintings of the time. Sunny Days (1874) may come as a surprise to those who know Alma-Tadema for his Salon-style works, but during the 1870s he started painting small landscapes, typically of his family when they were on holiday. Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836–1912), Sunny Days (1874), oil on canvas, 22.9 x 35.6 cm, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT. In the previous article, I looked at a selection of paintings by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836–1912) up to 1873, by which time he had settled in England and established himself as a successful painter, and was becoming well-known for his exquisitely detailed and thoroughly-researched paintings of classical Greece and Rome. ![]()
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