13 Facts About Sylvia Gosse

Laura Sylvia Gosse was an English painter and printmaker.

Sylvia Gosse ran an art school with the painter Walter Sickert.

Laura Sylvia Gosse, known as Sylvia, was the youngest of three children of Ellen Gosse and English poet and critic Sir Edmund Gosse.

Sylvia Gosse's grandfather was the naturalist Philip Henry Gosse, and the painter Lawrence Alma-Tadema was her uncle by marriage.

Sylvia Gosse enrolled in Sickert's evening classes, first at the Westminster School of Art and then at a private art school he founded in the Hampstead Road.

Sylvia Gosse eventually took over responsibility for running this school, which became known as Rowlandson House.

Sylvia Gosse served as co-principal from 1910 until it closed in 1914 and taught some classes there as well.

Sylvia Gosse had an independent income, and without her financial support the school would have closed much sooner.

Sylvia Gosse remained close to Sickert and his wife Christine, whom she nursed through her final illness in 1920.

Sylvia Gosse first exhibited her work in 1911 at the New English Art Club, and a portrait of her father was shown in the 1912 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.

Sylvia Gosse was a member of the Royal Society of British Artists.

Sylvia Gosse often worked from photographs, and one of her better-known paintings is Madrid Crowd, painted from a published news photograph of a Madrid crowd in 1931.

Sylvia Gosse's work is held by numerous British museums, including the Tate, the British Government Art Collection, the National Portrait Gallery, the Ashmolean Museum, the Ingram Collection of Modern British Art, and many others.