Tag: Lawrence Jossett

Born in 1910 in Croydon, Cambridgeshire, Lawrence Jossett tudied at Bromley and Beckenham Schools of Art from 1930 until 1931 and at the engraving school at the Royal College of Art under Malcolm Osborne and Robert Austin, 1932-5. He worked briefly with Waterlow’s, the banknote engravers, before beginning a sixty-year freelance career. He was a member of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers, 1951, and of the Art Workers’ Guild. He exhibited at the Royal Academy. He engraved maps, sporting prints and botanical subjects and had prints published by Thomas Ross of Binfield and illustrated ‘The Stream’ by Lois Lumplugh in 1945. He produced prints after Boucher and Fragonard with his most well known work being the reproduction of Pietro Annigoni’s portrait of Queen Elizabeth II.