Paintings by Sir Laurence Alma Tadema OM RA, 1836-1912 (original) (raw)

Classical subjects

• A Favourite Custom
• After the Audience (no image)
• Antony and Cleopatra (no image)
• An Apodyterium
• Audience at Agrippa's (no image)
• Bluebells
• Catullus at Lesbia's
• A Coign of Vantage
• Claudius (no image)
• Cleopatra
• Consecration of a Priestess of Bacchus
• A Connoissseur (no image)
• The Emperor Hadrian Visiting a Romano-British Pottery (no image)
• Entrance to a Theatre
• A Hearty Welcome (no image)
• Hero
• The Kiss
• Love in Idleness
• Love's Jewelled Fetter
• The Picture Gallery (no image)
• My Sister Is Not In
• Phidias in the Parthenon (no image)
• Pleading
• The Pomona Festival
• The Pyrrhic Dance
• A Roman Emperor (Claudius)
• A Roman lady returning from making purchases
• Sappho and Alcaeus
• A Sculptor's Model
• Silver Favourites
• Tepidarium
• Thermae Antoninanae
• The Triumph of Titus: The Flavians
• Unconscious Rivals
• The Vintage Festival
• The Women of Amphissa
• The Roses of Heliogabalus
• A Sculpture Garden

Classical subjects in the Pérez Simón Collection (no images on this site)

[•• = watercolor]

• Agripinna Visiting the Ashes of Germanicus, 1866
• Returning Home from Market, 1865
• Greek Wine, 1873••
• The Architect of the Coliseum, 1875••
• An Exedra, 1871••
• An Earthly Paradise, 1891
• Her Eyes are With Her Thoughts and They Are far away1897,
• A Question, 1877
• Study for The Roses of Heliogabalus, 1888
• Vain Courtship, 1890

Egyptian or Biblical subjects

• Joseph, Overseer of Pharaoh's Granaries
• The Finding of Moses
• An Egyptian Festival Three Thousand Years Ago (no image)
• The Egyptian Chess-Players (no image)

Medieval & Renaissance Subjects

• Sunday Morning
• Clotilde at the Tomb of Her Grandchildren (no image)
• The Education of the Children of Clovis (no image)

Portraits

• Portrait of Leopold Löwenstam
• Portrait of E. A. Waterlow, Esq., A.R.A.
• Portrait of Lourens Alma Tadema (self-portrait as a young man)
• Self-portrait

Miscellaneous

• In My Studio
• The Blind Beggar

Related Material

• Laura Alma-Tadema (paintings by Sir Laurence's second wife, also an artist)

Discussions

• F. W. Farrar's Moral Critique of The Roses of Heliogabalus
• Hall of Mirrors: Critique, Contradiction and Irony in Lawrence Alma-Tadema
• Setting and Gender in The Women of Amphissa
• A Moral Critique of The Roses of Heliogabalus
• Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema's Entrance to a Roman Theatre
• Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema's A Sculpture Garden — Where's the Story
• An Inglorious Moment in Ancient Rome
• Cleopatra: Elizabeth Taylor or Lochness Monster?

Last modified 3 June 2025