OBITUARY.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 26 June 1912, Page 5

OBITUARY.

BY fi.-T. W _i» T ,. 1 ,s S ARSOCTATIO^-COPYBIGHT. (Received June 26, 10 a m ) LONDON, June 25. Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, the eminent artist, died at Wiesbaden, in Prussia. [Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema was a naturalised British subject. In 1876 he was elected an associate of the Royal Academy, and in 1879 an academician. He was especially celebrated for his -pictures of ancient Roman, Greek and Egyptian life, which were painted with great realism and archaeological cor-'-"""rectness. He was a Litt.D. (Dublin) and D.C.L. (Durham), and was born at —-Dronryp, Netherlands, in 1836.]