Montalba, Henrietta Skerrett (1856–1893)

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Montalba, Henrietta Skerrett (1856–1893)

English sculptor. Born in London, England, in 1856; died in Venice on September 14, 1893; daughter of Antony Montalba and Emiline Montalba; sister of Clara Montalba (1842–1929), Ellen Montalba (fl. 1868–1902), and Hilda Montalba (d. 1919); studied at South Kensington, at the Belle Arti in Venice, and with Jules Dalou in London.

Henrietta Montalba, who first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1876, excelled in portrait and "fancy" busts, working mostly in terra cotta. Among her portrait busts is one of Robert Browning in terra-cotta (1883). Her other works include A Dalecarlian Peasant Woman, The Raven, and A Venetian Boy Catching a Crab (1893) which was exhibited in London and at the International Exhibition in Chicago. Like her sisters, Henrietta lived mostly in Venice.

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