Excerpt from Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema
From the very first his favourite plaything was a pencil and paper; he drew as by instinct. A family tradition survives to the effect that before he was five years Old, Laurens had corrected an error in a drawing-master’s design. Nature her self, therefore, seems to have pointed out his future career. But so the mother and guardians did not think. Art was regarded in those days as a profession which savoured of a discreditable character, and certainly not as one that could be rendered lucrative. It was therefore resolved that Laurens should follow in his father’s foot steps.
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