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The seamstress
GOSSE, Sylvia (1881-1968)
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.
Image: © Estate of Sylvia Gosse. All Rights Reserved 2024/Bridgeman Images/Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 213
Creation/Production
GOSSE, Sylvia
Date: 1914 ca
Acquisition
Bequest, 12/12/1963
Measurements
Height
(cm): 51.1
Width
(cm): 40.7
Height
(in): 20
Width
(in): 16
Techniques
oil on canvas
Techniques (fine art)
art dept - fine
Fine Art - painting
Material
oil
canvas
Location
In store
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