subjects to which he eventually devoted himself and upon which his fame rests. He was already prosperous, for his pictures sold from the easel, when he married the daughter of a wealthy English manufacturer, whom he had met on one of his numerous visits to London. His wife, herself, possessed strong artistic talent, and under his tutelage has become so good a painter that the name Laura Alma-Tadema is now sought for in the catalogues of the London exhibitions. In 1871 he settled in London, having previously had his studio in Brussels, and in

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Gustave Rodolphe Clarence Boulanger