Editing Lawrence Alma-Tadema (section)

===Move to England===
[[File:Tepidarium Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912).jpg|thumb|''The Tepidarium'' (1881), oil on panel, 24 × 33&nbsp;cm. [[Lady Lever Art Gallery]], Port Sunlight. Lounging next to the [[tepidarium]], a curvaceous beauty takes her rest. She holds a [[strigil]] in her right hand.]]

The outbreak of the [[Franco-Prussian War]] in July 1870 encouraged Alma-Tadema to leave the continent and move to London. His infatuation with Laura Epps played a great part in his relocation to England and in addition Gambart felt that the move would be advantageous to the artist's career. In stating his reasons for the move, Tadema simply said "I lost my first wife, a French lady with whom I married in 1863, in 1869. Having always had a great predilection for London, the only place where, up till then my work had met with buyers, I decided to leave the continent and go to settle in England, where I have found a true home."
[[File:Lawrence Alma-Tadema by J. P. Mayall.jpg|thumb|352x352px|''[https://library.nga.gov/permalink/01NGA_INST/1p5jkvq/alma991625483804896 Lawrence Alma-Tadema]'' by J. P. Mayall from Artists at Home, photogravure, published 1884, [https://www.nga.gov/research/library/imagecollections.html Department of Image Collections], National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, DC]]
With his small daughters and sister Artje, Alma-Tadema arrived in London at the beginning of September 1870. The painter wasted no time in contacting Laura, and it was arranged that he would give her painting lessons. During one of these, he proposed marriage. As he was then thirty-four and Laura was now only eighteen, her father was initially opposed to the idea. Dr Epps finally agreed on the condition that they should wait until they knew each other better. They married in July 1871. Laura, under her married name, also won a high reputation as an artist, and appears in numerous of Alma-Tadema's canvases after their marriage (''The Women of Amphissa'' (1887) being a notable example). This second marriage was enduring and happy, though childless, and Laura became stepmother to Anna and Laurence. Anna became a painter and Laurence became a novelist.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Alma-Tadema|magazine=Who's Who|year=1907|volume= 59|page=35|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yEcuAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA35 }}</ref>

In England he initially adopted the name ''Laurence Alma Tadema'' instead of ''Lourens Alma Tadema'' and later used the more English spelling ''Lawrence'' for his forename. He also incorporated ''Alma'' into his surname so that he appeared at the beginning of exhibition catalogues, under "A" rather than under "T".<ref name=" Barrow 10"/> He did not actually hyphenate his last name, but it was done by others and this has since become the convention.<ref name="Ash">Ash, ''Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema'', p.3.</ref>