Hilda Montalba (3 December 1845 – 24 November 1919)^[1] was a British painter and sculptor.

Hilda Montalba was born in London on 3 December 1845,^[2] one of four daughters of the Swedish-born artist Anthony Rubens Montalba and Emeline (née Davies). The 1871 British census shows Anthony Montalba living at 19 Arundel Gardens, Notting Hill, London, with four daughters, all artists.^[3]

Hilda and her three sisters all attained high repute as artists. The Montalba sisters were regular contributors to the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition during the 1870s.^[2] 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.^[2]

Between 1883 and 1890 she exhibited a number of works at the Grosvenor Gallery in Bond St, initially sculpture, later paintings of Venice, such as Venetian Fog, exhibited in 1890.^[4] She exhibited her work at the Woman's Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.^[5]

Three of her oil paintings are in UK public collections, namely Sheffield Museums and the National Trust.^[1]

• Clara Montalba
• Ellen Montalba
• Henrietta Montalba