montalba

Updated: June 19, 2025

At five o'clock, punctually to the minute, the steamer leaves the quay and breaks the stillness of the placid lagoon. A few fishing boats are dotted about, one of them with sails of yellow and blue, as lovely as a Chinese rug; others the deep red that Clara Montalba has reproduced so charmingly; and a few with crosses or other religious symbols.

E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas - A Wanderer in Venice

If overnight, one would spend some very delightful hours in drifting about Chioggia itself, which is a kind of foretaste of Venice, although not like enough to her to impair the surprise. Not all the books or photographs in the world, not Turner, nor Whistler, nor Clara Montalba, can so familiarize the stranger with the idea of Venice that the reality of Venice fails to be sudden and arresting.

E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas - A Wanderer in Venice

The especial work of this artist, by which her reputation is world-wide, is the illustration of old legends for children's books. <b>MONTALBA, CLARA.</b> Associate of the Society of Painters in Water-Colors, London, and of the Belgian Society of Water-Colorists. Born in Cheltenham, 1842. Pupil of Isabey in Paris. Her professional life has been spent in London and Venice.

Clara Erskine Clement Waters - Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D.

Like the great Frenchman, Miss Montalba strives to interpret the sadder moods of nature, when the wind moves the water a little mournfully and the outlines of the objects become uncertain in the filmy air." <b>MORETTO, EMMA.</b> Venetian painter, exhibited at Naples, in 1877, "Abbey of St.

Clara Erskine Clement Waters - Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D.