Reverie by Sybil Jacobson

Sybil Jacobson - Reverie - N.D., oil on canvas, 28 1/4" x 36"



Read by Kyle Baretto

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.

When her husband retired in 1932, they moved first to Moose Jaw and later to Winnipeg. After her husband's death in 1936, she moved to Vancouver where she taught briefly at the Canadian Institute of Associated Arts and at a small art school. She died in Vancouver in 1953.