'The Lido, Venice'

Oil on canvas, 18" x 28"

(Laura) Sylvia Gosse RBA RE SWA (1881 - 1968)

Born in London, the daughter of writer and critic Sir Edmund Gosse, she studied at the St John's Wood School of Art and the Royal Academy Schools. Gosse latter received instruction from Walter Sickert who became her greatest artistic influence. She taught at Sickert's Rowlandson House art school and nursed him during his illness in Dieppe in 1920. One of the first women artist members of the London Group Gosse had a successful career, exhibiting regularly at the Royal Academy, the New English Art Club and the Society of Women Artists. Her paintings are to be found in many international collections, notably the British Museum, the Ashmolean, Oxford and the Tate.

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