Walter
H. Everett was born in 1880 and was a
student at the Drexel Institute while Pyle was teaching classes in
illustration there. Everett was an apt student and was published in the
prominent magazines of the day by the time he was 23 - including covers for
Scribners and The Saturday Evening Post.
At
left is the frontispiece for The House of Rimmon, a short play from
1908 by Henry Van Dyke. At right is one of the six small tipped-in plates
from And Thus He Came - A Christmas Fantasy from 1916 by Cyrus
Townsend Brady.
In a biography by Ben and Jane Eisenstat (who just happen to be my neighbors here in Palo Alto) in the January 1988 issue of Step-by-Step Graphics (vol.4:1) he's described as a man preoccupied with his work to the detriment of his family life. In a career that lasted into the 1930's he was a nebulous figure who often missed deadlines and seemed to move his residence frequently, perhaps, the Eisenstats speculate, due to his neglect in dealing with such mundane tasks as paying rent.
He was a popular illustrator and the article compares his best work to Brangwyn and Sorolla. The comparison is valid and I love his approach to light and textures. Check out that issue of Step-by-Step for some wonderful additional samples. He taught at the Pennsylvania School of Industrial Art until 1914 and had a studio in Wilmington, Delaware until 1927.
Not much of his original work has survived. His career ended abruptly when he took his accumulated paintings and burned them. He painted for himself until his death in 1946.
Information supplied by: http://www.bpib.com/illustrat/manymor1.htm