Signed l.r.: Lessore

Watercolour over pen and ink, 21 by 16 cm (8 ¼ by 6 ¼ ins)

The Euston Theatre of Varieties (sometimes known as Euston Music Hall) opened in 1900 on the Euston Road almost directly opposite St Pancras station. By the early 1930s, following a decline in the interest in traditional music hall entertainment, the theatre had been converted into a cinema. It was briefly converted back to a theatre in the 1950s before being demolished in the 1970s. Lessore’s study possibly relates to a larger painting by her of the music hall now in the collection of Islington Local History Centre and Museum. Like much of her best work its subject shows the influence of her later husband Walter Sickert but is executed in a style that is very much her own.