Adelaide Everhart

Adelaide Everhart was born in North Carolina in 1865 and died in DeKalb County, Georgia, in 1958.  She was a painter who seems to have been best known for her portraits and still lifes.

Everhart illustrated several books published by the Page Company in the early 1900s. These include the comic romance Clementina's Highwayman (1907) by Robert Neilson Stephens, as well as historical books for younger readers such as Ivy May Bolton's Young Knight (1923) and Young Cavaliers (1924), and Evaleen Stein's Christmas Porringer. 

Adelaide Everhart supplied the color illustrations for Jane Scott Woodruff's Roses of Saint Elizabeth (1905), the first book in the eponymous series published by the Page Company in the first decade of the twentieth century. Together with her work for Gabriel and the Hour Book, the second volume in the "Roses" series, these are the finest extant book illustrations by this artist.

View more books illustrated by Adelaide Everhart:

Bolton, Ivy May. The Young Knight. Boston: L. C. Page & Company, 1923. Courtesy of HathiTrust.

Stephens, Robert Neilson. Clementina's Highwayman. Boston: L. C. Page & Company, 1907. Courtesy of HathiTrust.

Woodruff, Jane Scott. The Roses of Saint Elizabeth. Boston: L. C. Page & Company, 1905. Retrieved from the Library of Congress.

Front cover of "Gabriel and the Hour Book." Color binding. By Adelaide Everhart.

Front cover of "Gabriel and the Hour Book."

Gabriel. Color frontispiece to "Gabriel and the Hour Book." By Adelaide Everhart.

Gabriel

"He saw the Abbot walking up and down." Color plate from "Gabriel and the Hour Book." By Adelaide Everhart.

"He saw the Abbot walking up and down."

"Dreaming of all the beautiful things he meant to paint." Color plate from "Gabriel and the Hour Book." By Adelaide Everhart.

"Dreaming of all the beautiful things he meant to paint."

"Taking down the book ... he unwrapped and unclasped it." Color plate from "Gabriel and the Hour Book." By Adelaide Everhart.

"Taking down the book ... he unwrapped and unclasped it."

"Began slowly to turn over the pages." Color plate from "Gabriel and the Hour Book." By Adelaide Everhart.

"Began slowly to turn over the pages."

"He passed a little peasant boy." Color plate from "Gabriel and the Hour Book." By Adelaide Everhart.

"He passed a little peasant boy."

Front cover of "The Christmas Porringer." Color binding by Adelaide Everhart.

Front cover of "The Christmas Porringer."

"The startled wonder grew in her blue eyes as she stared down at the things at her feet." Black and white frontispiece to "The Christmas Porringer." By Adelaide Everhart.

"The startled wonder grew in her blue eyes as she stared down at the things at her feet."

"Resting her chin on one hand, looked dreamily into the fire." Black and white plate from "The Christmas Porringer." By Adelaide Everhart.

"Resting her chin on one hand, looked dreamily into the fire."

"Karen called out merrily, 'Dear Madam Swan, I have bought the most wonderful things!'" Black and white plate from "The Christmas Porringer." By Adelaide Everhart.

"Karen called out merrily, 'Dear Madam Swan, I have bought the most wonderful things!'"

"The man's keen eyes caught the gleam of something there." Black and white plate from "The Christmas Porringer." By Adelaide Everhart.

"The man's keen eyes caught the gleam of something there."

"He saw her sitting there on the grass beside Frau Radenour." Black and white plate from "The Christmas Porringer." By Adelaide Everhart.

"He saw her sitting there on the grass beside Frau Radenour."

"Many white swans were always to be found floating about." Black and white plate from "The Christmas Porringer." By Adelaide Everhart.

"Many white swans were always to be found floating about."

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