Clara Montalba (1842-1929) the Meeting Place, Watercolour

Large watercolour by highly regarded artist Clara Frederica Montalba

A superbly painted example of a gathering, titled 'The Meeting Place'

Framed and in very good condition.

Clara Frederica Montalba [also known as Clara Montalba] was born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England on 2 August 1840. Her three sisters, Ellen Emeline Montalba (1842-1930), Hilda Montalba (1845-1919) and Henrietta Mary Ann Skerrett Montalba (1848-1893) were all talented artists. Clara Montalba studied art in Paris under Eugène Isabey, (1803-1886) for four years and at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice where her family had a home. She worked as a marine and landscape painter. Venice and its canals were invariably the subject of many of her paintings. She also produced a few book illustrations. She exhibited on numerous occasions at the Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours in London. Her work was also shown at Agnew & Sons Gallery, Grosvenor Gallery, Fine Art Society, New Gallery, Royal Academy, Royal Society of British Artists, and Society of Women Artists in London: Royal Birmingham Society of Artists; Walker Art Gallery; Manchester City art Gallery; and at the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts.

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