| Hilda Montalba | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Hilda Montalba |
| Born | c.1840s England |
| Died | 1893 Venice, Italy |
| Nationality | British |
| Field | Painter |
| Works | Boy Unloading a Venetian Market Boat |
Hilda Montalba (d1919) was a British artist.
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Hilda Montalba was born in England in the mid 1840's[1], one of four daughters of the Swedish-born artist Anthony Rubens Montalba and Emeline (née Davies). The 1871 British census shows Anthony Montalba living at 19 Arundel Gardens, Notting Hill, London, with four daughters, all artists.[2]
Hilda and her three sisters all attained high repute as artists. The Montalba sisters were regular contributors to the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition during the 1870's.[1] 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 in Sheffield, Boy Unloading a Venetian Market Boat.[1]
Between 1883 and 1890 she exhibited a number of works at the Grosvenor Gallery in Bond St, initially sculpture, later paintings of Venice, such as Venetian Fog, exhibited in 1890.[3]
She died in 1893 in Venice.