{{short description|British artist}} {{Use British English|date=April 2020}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2020}} {{Infobox artist | honorific_prefix = | name = Roberta Everett | honorific_suffix = | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | birth_name = Roberta Hatcher | birth_date = 1906 | birth_place = Surrey | death_date = {{death year and age|1979|1906}} | death_place = Harrow, London | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | residence = | education = | alma_mater = {{ubl|Goldsmiths School of Art|City and Guilds of London Art School}} | known_for = Sculpture | notable_works = | style = | movement = | spouse = | partner = | awards = | elected = | patrons = | memorials = | website = | module = }} '''Roberta Alice Gordon Everett''' ({{nee}} '''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.<ref name="SG2019">{{cite book|author=Sara Gray|publisher=Dark River|year=2019|title= British Women Artists. A Biographical Dictionary of 1000 Women Artists in the British Decorative Arts |isbn=978-1-911121-63-3}}</ref> 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.<ref name="Mackay">{{cite book|author=James Mackay|publisher=Antique Collectors' Club|year=1977|title=The Dictionary of Western Sculptors in Bronze |isbn= 0902028553}}</ref><ref name="BuckmanVol1">{{cite book|author=David Buckman|publisher=Art Dictionaries Ltd|year=2006|title=Artists in Britain Since 1945 Vol 1, A to L |isbn=0-953260-95-X}}</ref> Having gained her Art Teachers' Diploma, Everett began a teaching career alongside producing sculptures and other artworks.<ref name="SG2019"/> 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.<ref name="SG2019"/><ref name="BuckmanVol1"/> As an artist, Everett worked in clay, plaster, stone and bronze to produce busts, heads and figures.<ref name="SG2019"/><ref name="Mackay"/> 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.<ref name="SG2019"/><ref name="BuckmanVol1"/> She lived at Hornchurch in Essex and then at Harrow in Middlesex, where she died in 1979.<ref name="BuckmanVol1"/>
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