Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, R.A., And His Art

Title : Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, R.A., And His Art  
Author : Percy Cross Standing
Source : Windsor Magazine
Year Published : 1899
Page Count : 14
Image Count : 15
Word Count : 5,013
File Size in MB : 11.6
File Type : PDF

"He is often very, very despondent and dissatisfied when a picture is in progress, even now. This is especially true of one of his Academy pictures. I happened to call one day in February, and found the artist in an "exceedingly depressed ” frame of mind. Perhaps the art wouldn’t be so great if he were always buoyant! It was during the ’sixties that the young painter executed two large commissions for Gambart, the dealer. The first of these was for twenty-four pictures, while the second was for the larger number of sixty-five paintings. These works were paid for upon a sliding scale, each six pictures to be treated upon a more generous scale than the preceding six, and the sequel shows that M. Gambart must have possessed in great measure the soul of an artist as well as the brain of a business man..."