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Lauras Alma Tademas

Early Life and Artistic Training Lourens Alma Tadema, later Lawrence Alma Tadema, was born in Dronryp, Friesland, Netherlands, on January 8, 1836. His father, Pieter Jiltes Tadema, a village notary, had three sons by his first marriage, and his mother, Hinke Dirks Brouwer, was the half sister of Pieter’s first wife. The Tadema family moved to Leeuwarden in 1838 where Pieter's position as a notary would be more lucrative. His father die

d when Laurens was four, leaving his mother with five children: Laurens, his sister, and three boys from his father’s first marriage. Hinke Brouwer had artistic leanings, and decided that drawing lessons should be incorporated into the children’s education. He received his first art training with a local drawing master hired to teach his older half-brothers. It was intended that Laurens would become a lawyer; but in 1851 he suffered a…