Anthony R. Montalba

Anthony Rubens Montalba (1812–24 July 1884)[citation needed] was a Swedish-born, naturalised British painter and the head of a family of renowned artists that based itself in Venice in the later part of the nineteenth-century.

He may be known best as the editor of an 1849 story collection illustrated by Richard Doyle, Fairy Tales from All Nations.

Montalba edited Fairy Tales from All Nations, illustrated by Richard Doyle and published by Chapman & Hall in 1849.

[2] Jack Zipes explains the Puritanical background and the flowering after 1840 in the introduction to his Victorian Fairy Tales anthology.

He was born in 1812 in Karlskrona, Blekinge Iän, Sweden and named Salomon.