Career
Hilda Montalba (1846—1919) was a British painter and sculptor. The 1871 British census shows Anthony Montalba living at 19 Arundel Gardens, Notting Hill, London, with four daughters, all artists. The Montalba sisters were regular contributors to the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition during the 1870s.
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. Between 1883 and 1890 she exhibited a number of works at the Grosvenor Gallery in Bond Street, initially sculpture, later paintings of Venice, such as Venetian Fog, exhibited in 1890.
Three of her oil paintings are in United Kingdom public collections, namely Sheffield Museums and the National Trust.