page_title: Anthony R. Montalba
section_title: Life
hierarchical_section_title: Anthony R. Montalba / Life
caption_attribution_description: English: Painting of Venice by Clara Montalba
context_page_description: 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. He may be known best as the editor of an 1849 story collection illustrated by Richard Doyle, Fairy Tales from All Nations.
context_section_description: Montalba was the son of Aron Abrahamson and Frederika Schlesinger.  He was born in 1812 in Karlskrona, Blekinge Iän, Sweden and named Salomon.
  Montalba married an English woman, Emeline Davies, in 1839. The couple had five children, four daughters and a son:
  Clara Frederica (1840–1929) Clara studied in Paris under Eugene Isabey and later in Venice, where her family moved, at the Accademia di Belle Arti. She attained international recognition following exhibitions in Europe and America.  She specialized in watercolors, most notably scenes from her family's home in Venice, where she lived at the end of the 19th century. Clara Montalba exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts and The Woman's Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.
  Ellen Emeline (1842–1912), who studied at the Royal College of Art and in Europe, being based in Venice along with her family. She painted a number of portraits and landscape paintings. Among the portraits she exhibited was one of her sister Clara.
  Edward Augustus (1843–1938), whose house in Venice became a gathering place for artists.
  Hilda Montalba (1846-1919). 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.
  Henrietta Mary Ann Skerrett (1848–1893). Henrietta was a noted sculptor who studied first at what was to become the Royal College of Art in South Kensington, and then in the Accademia di Belle Arti at Venice. Later she became a pupil of Jules Dalou, the French sculptor, during his residence in London. She was on terms of friendship with her fellow-student Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, who painted a portrait of her and presented it to the Canadian Academy of Arts in Ottawa (now in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada).
  The 1871 British census shows Montalba living at 19 Arundel Gardens, Notting Hill, London, with four daughters, all artists.
  Montalba died in Venice on 24 July 1884
caption: Venice by Clara Montalba
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