Their first-born, a son, died aged six months of smallpox. On September 24th, 1863, twenty-seven-year-old Laurens Alma-Tadema married a French lady, Marie-Pauline Gressin-Dumoulin de Boisgirard in Antwerp City Hall and the couple went on to have three children. Painting of Laurense and Anna painted by the sister of their step-mother Hall in Townshend House by Ellen Epps (1873) Look how the artist has mastered the depiction of the different textures of the various surfaces whether it be clothes or inanimate objects. In her hand is a vase of carnations and she wears an Aesthetic dress probably made of Indian cotton, with a shell necklace. In the painting above, entitled Miss Anna Alma-Tadema, which her father completed in 1883 we see fifteen year old Anna, standing at the door of the library at Townshend House. In this second part of the blog I am looking at Alma-Tadema’s Ladies but in this blog I am looking at the lives of his two daughters, Laurense and Anna Alma-Tadema. In my last blog I looked at the lives of Lawrence Alma-Tadema’s two wives, Marie-Pauline Gressin-Dumoulin de Boisgirard and Laura Theresa Epps and how, in a way their two lives were intertwined. (Detail from full-length portrait) Miss Anna Alma-Tadema by Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1883)
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