Lawrence Alma Tadema
Sir Lawrence AlmaTadema OM RA was a Dutch painter of special British denizenship.
Lourens Alma Tadema was born onJanuary 1836 in the village of Dronrijp in the province of Friesland in the north of the Netherlands. The surname Tadema is an old Frisian patronymic, meaning son of Tade, while the names Lourens and Alma came from his godfather. He was the sixth child of Pieter Jiltes Tadema , the village notary, and the third child of Hinke Dirks Brouwer . His father had three sons from a previous marriage. His parents first child died young, and the second was Atje , Lourens sister, for whom he had great affection.
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