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The Sempstress
GOSSE, Sylvia (1881 - 1965)
© Estate of Sylvia Gosse 2002. All rights reserved DACS
Media: oil on canvas
Size: 51.1 x 40.7 cm
Acquired: 1963; Bequest; Margaret Davies
Accession Number: NMW A 213
Collection: The Davies Sisters Collection
Sylvia Gosse, daughter of the writer Sir Edmund Gosse, studied at the Royal Academy and at Sickert's school. In 1910-14 she was its co-principal and in 1914 helped to found the London Group. Gosse favoured town scenes and interiors with female figures, painted in a tonal palette with broken brushwork. The sitter in this portrait is Christine Angus (1877-1920). An expert embroiderer and also a former student of Sickert, she became his second wife in 1911. Margaret Davies purchased this work in 1948.
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