Anna Alma-Tadema was the younger daughter of the Dutch painter Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912) and his first wife, Marie-Pauline Gressin de Boisgirard.

The family moved to London in 1870, and it was here that Anna received her early artistic training with her father and stepmother, Laura (1852-1909). Anna, very much inspired by her father, focused on painting the elaborate interiors of the family home, as well as portraits and flower paintings.

She made several watercolours of the interior of the first Alma-Tadema family home, Townshend House, near Regent's Park, London. These included the Drawing Room, which was exhibited at the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago, and The Gold Room, shown at...