| Hilda Montalba | |
| Birth Name: | Hilda Montalba |
| Birth Date: | 3 December 1845 |
| Birth Place: | London, England |
| Death Place: | Venice, Italy |
| Nationality: | British |
| Field: | Painter |
| Works: | Boy Unloading a Venetian Market Boat |
Hilda Montalba (3 December 1845 – 24 November 1919) was a British painter and sculptor.
Hilda Montalba was born in London on 3 December 1845,[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 1870s.[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 exhibited her work at the Woman's Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.[4]
Three of her oil paintings are in UK public collections, namely Sheffield Museums and the National Trust.