Hilda Montalba was a British artist.

Early life

Hilda Montalba was born in England

England

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 in the mid 1840's, one of four daughters of the Swedish-born artist Anthony Rubens Montalba

Anthony R. Montalba

Anthony Rubens Montalba was a Swedish-born, naturalised British painter and the head of a family of renowned artists that based itself in Venice in the later part of the nineteenth-century...

 and Emeline (née Davies). The 1871 British census shows Anthony Montalba living at 19 Arundel Gardens

Arundel Gardens

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, Notting Hill

Notting Hill

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, London

London

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, with four daughters, all artists.

Career

Hilda and her three sisters all attained high repute as artists. The Montalba sisters were regular contributors to the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition

Royal Academy summer exhibition

The Summer Exhibition is an open art exhibition held annually by the Royal Academy in Burlington House, Piccadilly in central London, England, during the summer months of June, July, and August...

 during the 1870's. Like her sisters, Hilda painted many landscape subjects, including scenes of Venice. Like Clara she painted fishing boats, and also painted close-up studies of Venetian people. One notable example of her work is a painting now in the Graves Art Gallery

Graves Art Gallery

Graves Art Gallery is in the centre of Sheffield above the Central Library and close to the Millennium Galleries. It shows permanent displays from the city’s collections of 19th and 20th century British and European art as well as a programme of temporary exhibitions.The collection encapsulates the...

 in Sheffield

Sheffield

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, Boy Unloading a Venetian Market Boat.

Between 1883 and 1890 she exhibited a number of works at the Grosvenor Gallery

Grosvenor Gallery

The Grosvenor Gallery was an art gallery in London founded in 1877 by Sir Coutts Lindsay and his wife Blanche. Its first directors were J. Comyns Carr and Charles Hallé...

in Bond St, initially sculpture, later paintings of Venice, such as Venetian Fog, exhibited in 1890.

External links

• Biography of the Montalba sisters Retrieved August 2011
• Hilda Montalba at the BBC website Retrieved August 2011