I'm looking for more information on an artist

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Any art historians on the Dope?

Thanks to the wonderful staff at the National Maritime Museum, I’ve found the artist who painted my grandmother and my father and aunt as children: Herbert Barnard John Everett. Outside his biography and paintings at the National Maritime Museum, there doesn’t appear to be anything much about him. I’d like to know more about him. While I’m waiting for more information from the NMM, can perhaps Dopers enlighten me further?

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I think I’m the art historian, for what it’s worth, but you’ve come up with an obscure one there. Never heard of him, so I checked the bib databases for art history. I come up with little:

Augustus John and the Everetts
Author Watkins, Nicholas
Source Apollo, vol. 99, no. 145, pp. 188-193, Mar 1974

"Abstract : Traces the relationship between Augustus John and the Everetts, and shows the achievements of John Everett, the marine painter. Publishes extracts from John Everett’s unpublished memoirs, as well as an unrecorded etching by Augustus John of Dorelia together with copies made by Everett after early Augustus John drawings. "

And that is the only article I can turn up with a basic search. Might have a useful bibliography or something. The bibliography you found is pretty thorough, though.

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Thanks! I’ve done some digging on Mr Watkins and found that in 2001 he was a Reader at Leicester University, so I’ve emailed them asking them to forward my details. I’ve emailed two of his publishers as well.

Leicester University is a driveable distance.

The game is afoot!

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Dictionary of Sea Painters. By E.H.H. Archibald. Woodbridge, England: Antique Collectors’ Club, 1980. Biographies begin on page 59.

Probably has less info than that online biography, though.

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An update. It turns out that it wasn’t John Everett who painted my grandmother; today I went to the Antiques Roadshow and had it looked at. I learned that the painter was Edith M.L. Everett. And she’s not the Edith Everett who illustrated Enid Blyton’s books. Search engines are turning up nothing.

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England & Wales, death index, 1837-1983

Approximately 50% of the names between 1837 and 1900 have been transcribed thus far.

Estimated Year of Birth / Year of Registration / Quarter of Registration / District / County

  1. Edith Everett — 1838 Oct-Nov-Dec Chertsey Surrey
  2. Edith Everett — 1860 Oct-Nov-Dec Clerkenwell Middlesex
  3. Edith Everett abt 1877 1878 Jul-Aug-Sep Mitford Norfolk
  4. Edith Everett abt 1889 1889 Apr-May-Jun Halstead Essex
  5. Edith Everett abt 1893 1894 Jan-Feb-Mar Wandsworth Greater London, London, Surrey
  6. Edith Everett abt 1892 1895 Apr-May-Jun Dover Kent
  7. Edith Everett abt 1900 1900 Apr-May-Jun Stockport Cheshire, Lancashire
  8. Edith Everett abt 1904 1904 Jul-Aug-Sep Fulham Greater London, London, Middlesex
  9. Edith Everett abt 1912 1912 Jul-Aug-Sep Lambeth Greater London, London, Surrey
  10. Edith Everett abt 1869 1914 Oct-Nov-Dec Gravesend (1837-1941) Kent
  11. Edith Everett abt 1881 1922 Jan-Feb-Mar Mutford Norfolk, Suffolk
  12. Edith _ Everett abt 1869 1917 Jan-Feb-Mar Christchurch (1837-1925) Hampshire
  13. Edith Mary Everett abt 1891 1891 Jan-Feb-Mar Thingoe Suffolk
  14. Edith Mary Everett abt 1907 1907 Oct-Nov-Dec Ely Cambridgeshire, Norfolk
  15. Edith May Everett abt 1897 1899 Jan-Feb-Mar Chelsea (1841-1981) Greater London, London, Middlesex
  16. Edith May Everett abt 1901 1903 Oct-Nov-Dec York Yorkshire - East Riding, Yorkshire - North Riding, North Yorkshire, Yorkshire - West Riding

England & Wales, death index, 1984-2005

Name / Date of birth / Death Registration (Month/Year) / Age (est.) / Reg. District / Inferred County

  1. Edith Everett 6 Mar 1906 May 1984 78 East Dereham Norfolk
  2. Edith Everett 15 Mar 1897 Sep 1987 90 Oldham Lancashire
  3. Edith Everett 28 Jun 1911 Jul 1988 77 Surrey North-Western Surrey
  4. Edith Everett 14 Nov 1910 Dec 1988 78 Newport Glamorgan, Monmouthshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire
  5. Edith Everett 11 Apr 1894 Jul 1994 100 Surrey North-Western Surrey
  6. Edith Everett
  7. Edith Everett 7 Aug 1906 Nov 1998 92 Barnet Hertfordshire, Middlesex
  8. Edith Everett 23 Feb 1948 Oct 2001 53 Durham Northern Durham
  9. Edith Everett 6 Nov 1930 Dec 2003 73 Lambeth London
  10. Edith Everett 29 Sep 1919 May 2003 83 Carlisle Cumberland
  11. Edith Lucy Everett 12 May 1906 Jun 1989 83 Leicestershire Central Leicestershire
  12. Edith Lucy Everett 24 Feb 1906 Nov 1998 92 Bury St Edmunds Suffolk
  13. Edith Margaret Everett 3 Jun 1906 Apr 1986 79 Kings Lynn Norfolk
  14. Edith Mary Everett 20 Aug 1908 Jan 1990 81 Watford Hertfordshire
  15. Edith Mary Everett 13 Apr 1920 Mar 1993 72 Norwich Norfolk
  16. Edith Mary Everett 10 Jan 1913 Dec 1996 83 Colchester Essex
  17. Edith Mary Everett 31 Aug 1913 Jun 2000 86 Caerphilly Mid Glamorgan
  18. Edith May Everett 29 May 1910 Apr 2001 90 Norwich Norfolk
  19. Edith Molly Everett 9 Aug 1923 Jan 2003 79 Braintree Essex
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Hi there,

I was searching online for information about my great grandmother, Edith Leeson / Edith Everett, who was a portrait painter (trained at the Royal Academy) & I came upon your thread. I know I’m massively late to the party but I wondered whether perhaps she might be the person you’re looking for? I’m also keen to learn more about where her paintings have ended up too…

Best wishes
Alice

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Hi Alice, I’ve sent you an email. I hope you find it of interest.

And welcome to the Dope.