Barrow R. J: Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Phaidon Press Inc, 2001, ISBN 0-7148-3918-3
Reitlinger, Gerald; The Economics of Taste, Vol I: The Rise and Fall of Picture Prices 1760-1960, Barrie and Rockliffe, London, 1961
Swanson, Vern G: Alma-Tadema: The Painter of the Victorian Vision of the Ancient World, Ash & Grant, London, 1977, ISBN 978-0-904069-08-2; Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1977, ISBN 0-684-15304-1
Swinglehurst, Edmund: Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Thunder Bay Press, Canada, 2001, ISBN 1-57145-269-9 (NOTE: the illustration of The Roses of Heliogabalus in this book is printed the wrong way round!)