Roberta Everett

British artist
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IntroBritish artist
A.K.A.Roberta Alice Gordon Everett Roberta Hatcher
A.K.A.Roberta Alice Gordon Everett Roberta Hatcher
PlacesUnited Kingdom
wasArtist Sculptor
Work fieldArts
Gender
Female
Birth1906, Surrey, South East England, England, United Kingdom
Death1979Harrow, London Borough of Harrow, Greater London, United Kingdom (aged 73 years)
Education
City and Guilds of London Art SchoolLondon, Kingdom of Wessex, United Kingdom
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Biography

Roberta Alice Gordon Everett (née Roberta Hatcher; 29 May 1906 – 1979) was a British sculptor who produced busts and figures in bronze, clay and plaster.

Biography

Everett was born in Surrey where she was raised by her mother, after her father died while she was still a young child. She attended the Wallington County School before studying at Goldsmiths School of Art in London and then at the City and Guilds of London Art School. Having gained her Art Teachers' Diploma, Everett began a teaching career alongside producing sculptures and other artworks. She taught art and crafts at schools and colleges at Brentwood in Essex and at Shoreditch and Bow in east London where she was the senior art mistress at the Coborn School for Girls from 1948 to 1950. As an artist, Everett worked in clay, plaster, stone and bronze to produce busts, heads and figures. She exhibited works at the Royal Academy in London between 1928 and 1949 and also at the Paris Salon and with the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts and in Bradford. She lived at Hornchurch in Essex and then at Harrow in Middlesex, where she died in 1979.

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