The artist Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema took the same approach to the decoration of his London home Townshend House as he did with his fastidiously researched images of antiquity. Detailed paintings of the home's interiors uniting various aesthetic realms, from ancient Rome to 17th-century Netherlands, were created by his wife's (Laura) sisters Ellen and Emily, and later by the couple's daughter Anna.
Portrait of Laura Alma-Tadema by Ellen Epps (1873), at Townshend House, London.














