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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
Anna Alma-Tadema 1867-1943 is in Painters.
1863. [her father] Lawrence Alma-Tadema (age 26). A portrait of the artist's daughters Laurense and Anna Alma-Tadema.
Life of Lawrence Alma-Tadema by Helen Zimmern. Four years after joining her son [[her father] Lawrence Alma-Tadema (age 28)], Madame Tadema died. It is sad to think that this good parent did not live to witness her son's world-wide fame, but pleasant to know that she still heard the praise aroused by some of his first exhibited pictures, and to see him the recipient of his first gold medal, that accorded to him at Amsterdam in 1862. In 1865 Tadema married a French lady, and removed to Brussels, where he remained until his wife's death. This occurred in 1869, when he was left alone with his sister and two little girls, the eldest, Laurence, who has developed into a gifted writer, and the second, Anna, the delicate, dainty artist who has inherited so much of her father's power for reproducing detail.
It was during the lifetime of his first wife that Alma Tadema paid his first visit to Italy and saw with his own eyes the homes of those Romans who were destined to become his most familiar friends.
Lawrence Alma-Tadema and [her mother] Marie-Pauline Gressin-Dumoulin were married at the City Hall in Antwerp.
On 16th May 1867 Anna Alma-Tadema was born to Lawrence Alma-Tadema (age 31) and Marie-Pauline Gressin-Dumoulin.
Life of Lawrence Alma-Tadema by Helen Zimmern. An accident brought Tadema to London in 1870, and here he at once took root. A year later he remarried1, his wife this time being Miss [her step-mother] Laura Theresa Epps (age 19), a woman of rare beauty, and herself a painter of distinction.
Note 1. In July 1871 [her father] Lawrence Alma-Tadema (age 35) and Laura Theresa Epps were married.
1877. Robert Faulkner (age 54). Photograph of Anna Alma-Tadema (age 9).
1884 Anna Alma-Tadema (age 16). "The Gold Room".
1885. [her father] Lawrence Alma-Tadema (age 48). Portrait of the artist's daughter Anna Alma-Tadema (age 17).
1885 Anna Alma-Tadema (age 17). "Eton College Chapel [Map]".
1885 Anna Alma-Tadema (age 17). "The Drawing Room, Townshend House".
1886-7. Anna Alma-Tadema (age 18). "The Garden Studio".
1887. Anna Alma-Tadema (age 19). "Drawing Room, 1a Holland Park".
Around 1892 Anna Alma-Tadema (age 24). Self-portrait.
1900 Anna Alma-Tadema (age 32). "The idler's harvest".
1900 Anna Alma-Tadema (age 32). "The Closing Door".
1902 Anna Alma-Tadema (age 34). "Girl in a Bonnet with her Head on a Blue Pillow".
On 25th June 1912 [her father] Lawrence Alma-Tadema (age 76) died at Kaiserhof Spa, Wiesbaden, Germany where he had travelled with his daughter Anne (age 45) for treatment of his stomach ulcers. He was buried in the crypt of St Paul's Cathedral [Map].
On 5th July 1943 Anna Alma-Tadema (age 76) died unmarried.
Father: Lawrence Alma-Tadema
GrandFather: Eugène Gressin-Dumoulin
Mother: Marie-Pauline Gressin-Dumoulin