Gosse, (Laura) Sylvia (1881–1968)

English artist and printmaker. A founder-member of the avant-garde London Group in 1914, she was influenced by the Impressionist painter Walter Sickert and post-Impressionist Spencer Gore (1878–1914). Her work, which includes accomplished etchings, encompassed genre subjects and everyday interiors, often with a single figure, as well as urban and Continental scenes.

Gosse was born in London, and studied at St John's Wood School of Art and the Royal Academy Schools. She met Walter Sickert in 1908, and became co-principal at his school of painting and etching at Rowland House. In 1913 she had the first of many solo shows, and her work now features in many public collections throughout the UK. Her father was the writer and critic Edmund Gosse.