Clara Montalba

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Clara Fredrica Montalba (born August 2, 1840 in Cheltenham , Gloucestershire , † August 13, 1929 in Venice ) was an English watercolor painter .

Life

She was the eldest of four daughters of Anthony Rubens Montalba from Sweden and Emeline Davies . From 1867 to 1869 she was a student of Eugène Isabey in Paris . From 1874 she painted in London and Venice at the Accademia di belle arti . In 1874 she became a member of the Royal Watercolor Society , in 1876 of the Société nationale des aquarellistes et pastellistes in Belgium and in 1879 of the Hollandsche Teekenmaatschappij in The Hague . The early suffragette Millicent Garrett Fawcett named her in 1886 as one of twenty women who had supported the "warm help and support" movement. She and her sister Henrietta Montalba were friends with the Princess Louise .

Works (selection)

  • Piazzetta (St. Marco's Square) in Venice

  • View of St. Marcus

  • View of Aylsham

literature

  • Miss Clara Montalba . In: The Academy and literature . Academy Publishing Co., London, 11th year 1877, January / June
  • Clara Montalba: Water color sketches . In: The Academy and literature . Academy Publishing Co., London 12th year 1877. July / December ISSN  0269-333X
  • Montalba, Clara . In: Hermann Alexander Müller : Biographical Artist Lexicon. The most famous contemporaries in the field of fine arts of all countries with details of their works . Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1882, p. 374. Digitized .
  • Montalba, Clara : In: General Artist Lexicon. Life and work of the most famous visual artists . Prepared by Hermann Alexander Müller . Edited by Hans Wolfgang Singer . 3rd volume. 3. redesigned and additional edition. Literary publishing house Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt am Main 1898, p. 234. Digitized
  • Motyka Gereon: Venice in the mirror of Victorian travel literature. A collection of sources . Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1990 ISBN 3-6314-2278-4 , p. 285 (Diss. University of Regensburg 1989)

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personal data
SURNAME Montalba, Clara
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Montalba, Clara Fredrica (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English watercolor painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 2, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH Cheltenham
DATE OF DEATH August 13, 1929
Place of death Venice