Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema's world famous home

Hampton & Sons (London)

RA Collection: Book

Record number

13/3480

Author

Hampton & Sons (London)

Imprint

[London]: Hampton & Sons, Ltd., [1912]

Physical Description

28 p. : chiefly illus. ; 25 cm.

Summary Note

Estate agent's auction brochure with 22 photoprints of house and grounds.

"The universally admired home of the late Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema O.M., R.A.; 34 Grove End Road, St. John’s Wood, N.W.; An unique residence with magnificent Byzantine studio and gallery. Nine or more bed rooms, billiard room, dining room, library, inner hall, palm house, Dutch Room, complete domestic offices, etc. The entire property is freehold and extended to about three-quarters of an acre. The house is set well back from the road, and seated amidst old world matured gardens; the whole property is in reality an artist’s treasure house, collected by one master mind. Hampton & Sons will sell the above by auction at the Mart, Tokenhouse Yard, E.C., on Thursday, 5th December, 1912, at two o’clock (unless previously disposed of by private treaty)." [page 1]

Name as Subject

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema RA