Laura developed a particular interest in recreating scenes from the Netherlands in the seventeenth century, perhaps out of respect for her husband’s and step-daughters’ origins, as much as for her fascination in Dutch paintings of the period. The Bible Lesson (date not known, Opus 58) is one of her earlier examples, which also shows her love for Dutch painted tiles of that time. (https://eclecticlight.co/2016/10/31/laura-theresa-alma-tadema-the-womans-world/)