# Roberta Everett

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| name             = Roberta Everett   
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| birth_name       = Roberta Hatcher
| birth_date   = 1906
| birth_place  = [Surrey](/source/Surrey)
| death_date   = {{death year and age|1979|1906}}
| death_place      = [Harrow, London](/source/Harrow%2C_London)
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'''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](/source/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](/source/Goldsmiths%2C_University_of_London) in London and then at the [City and Guilds of London Art School](/source/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](/source/Brentwood%2C_Essex) in [Essex](/source/Essex) and at [Shoreditch](/source/Shoreditch) and [Bow](/source/Bow%2C_London) 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](/source/Royal_Academy) in London between 1928 and 1949 and also at the [Paris Salon](/source/Paris_Salon) and with the [Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts](/source/Royal_Glasgow_Institute_of_the_Fine_Arts) and in [Bradford](/source/Bradford).<ref name="SG2019"/><ref name="BuckmanVol1"/> She lived at [Hornchurch](/source/Hornchurch) in Essex and then at [Harrow](/source/Harrow%2C_London) in Middlesex, where she died in 1979.<ref name="BuckmanVol1"/>

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Category:English women sculptors
Category:Artists from Surrey
Category:20th-century British women sculptors

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