Laura Theresa Alma-Tadema. Laura Theresa Alma-Tadema, Lady Alma-Tadema was an English painter specialising in domestic and genre scenes of women and children.
She was, from 1871, the second wife of the painter Lawrence Alma-Tadema. A daughter of Dr. George Napoleon Epps, she had two sisters who were also painters, while Edmund Gosse and Rowland Hill were her brothers-in-law.
It was at Madox Brown's home that Alma-Tadema first met her in December 1869, when she was aged 17 and he 33. He fell in love at first sight, and so it was partly her presence in London that influenced him into relocating in England rather than elsewhere when forced to leave the continent by the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in July 1870. Arriving in London at the beginning of September 1870 with his small daughters and sister Artje, Alma-Tadema wasted no time in contacting Epps, and it was arranged that he would give her painting lessons.
During one of these, he proposed marriage. As he was then thirty-four and Alma-Tadema was now only eighteen, her father was initially opposed to the idea.
Dr. Epps finally agreed on the condition that they should wait until they knew each other better. They married in July 1871 and, though this second marriage proved childless, it also proved enduring and happy, with Alma-Tadema acting as stepmother to her husband's daughters by his first marriage, Laurence and Anna. The Paris Salon in 1873 g
She was, from 1871, the second wife of the painter Lawrence Alma-Tadema. A daughter of Dr. George Napoleon Epps, she had two sisters who were also painters, while Edmund Gosse and Rowland Hill were her brothers-in-law.
It was at Madox Brown's home that Alma-Tadema first met her in December 1869, when she was aged 17 and he 33. He fell in love at first sight, and so it was partly her presence in London that influenced him into relocating in England rather than elsewhere when forced to leave the continent by the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in July 1870. Arriving in London at the beginning of September 1870 with his small daughters and sister Artje, Alma-Tadema wasted no time in contacting Epps, and it was arranged that he would give her painting lessons.
During one of these, he proposed marriage. As he was then thirty-four and Alma-Tadema was now only eighteen, her father was initially opposed to the idea.
Dr. Epps finally agreed on the condition that they should wait until they knew each other better. They married in July 1871 and, though this second marriage proved childless, it also proved enduring and happy, with Alma-Tadema acting as stepmother to her husband's daughters by his first marriage, Laurence and Anna. The Paris Salon in 1873 g
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