A charming Pen and Ink Drawing of an old lady reading a newspaperamongst the backdrop of a cosy living room. Sylvia Gosse was the daughter of Sir Edmund Gosse an English poet, author and critic.Born into an artistic family with Sir Lawrence Alma tadema her uncle by marriage. Gosse got her art training first at the St. John''s Wood Art School and then at the Royal Academy of Art (1906–09).In 1908, the artist Walter Sickert was impressed by her talent and decided she should learn etching. She 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. Gosse eventually took over responsibility for running this school, which became known as Rowlandson House (alternatively, the Sickert and Gosse School of Painting and Etching).Her works are represented in the national collection at the Tate, Ashmolean, National Portrait gallery and the Ingram Collection of Modern British Art,Sickert...