Hilda Theobald

Hilda Theobald (1901 – 1985) was a British artist, notable as a modeller and sculptor of portrait busts.

Biography Theobald was born in 1901, at Soham in Cambridgeshire and attended St Edmund's School in Hunstanton. Her mother was a local Cambridgeshire woman and her father, who was originally from Norfolk, was a farmer. In due course, Theobald began casting her own sculptures, often portrait heads and busts, in resin, bronze and silver. She lived at East Dereham and had a number of solo exhibitions in the Norfolk and East Anglia region and, from the 1940s, took part in Norfolk and Norwich Art Circle exhibitions. Examples of her work include a font with four silver panels for a church at Toftwood, a sculpture in a church at Great Snoring, a bronze bust for a store at High Wycombe and portrait busts for collections in Texas, Kenya and Germany.