This is Lawrence Alma-Tadema

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, OM, RA (; born Lourens Alma Tadema Dutch pronunciation: [ˈlʌurəns ˈɑlmaː ˈtaːdəˌmaː]; 8 January 1836 – 25 June 1912) was a Dutch painter of special British denizenship. Born in Dronryp, the Netherlands, and trained at the Royal Academy of Antwerp, Belgium, he contracted in England in 1870 and spent the land of his vigor there. A classical-subject painter, he became well-known for his depictions of the luxury and decadence of the Roman Empire, with languorous figures set in fabulous marbled interiors or adjoining a backdrop of dazzling blue Mediterranean Sea and sky. Alma-Tadema was considered one of the most popular Victorian painters. Though admired during his lifetime for his draftsmanship and depictions of Classical antiquity, his pretend fell into disrepute after his death, and only before the 1960s has it been re-evaluated for its importance within nineteenth-century British art.

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