Sybil Jacobson was born in London, England, in 1881. She studied at the Hastings and St. Leonard's Municipal School of Art and Science, and at the Lambeth School of Science and Art. Later she attended the Royal Academy Schools, where she studied under John Singer Sargent, Sir L. Alma-Tadema and others, and studied in Paris for several years. In 1912, she emigrated to Canada with her first husband, who was also an artist, to homestead in Saskatchewan. Later, she lived in several different towns in Saskatchewan with her second husband. In 1929, she was a founding member of the Women's Art Association of Saskatchewan.
