Raffaelle Monti
Born 1818
Died 16 October 1881
Active: 1851 - 1881
Country of birth: Switzerland
Country of death: England
Sculptor
Born in Iseo, Ticino, Switzerland of an Italian father, Gaetano Monti (1776-1847) a sculptor from Ravenna who was a pupil of Bertel Thorvaldsen. He studied in his father's studio and at the Accademia de Belle Arti di Brera, Milan under the sculptor Pempeo Marchesi.
In 1848 he fled to London from Italy after the Italian insurgents were defeated by the Austrian army at Custozza. Raffaele was involved with the Crystal Palace Company (c1853) and then worked with Joseph Paxton on the great Hall at Mentmore, home of the Rothschilds. He created a number of other commissions and also designed for Elkington's and Garrards. However his financial situation remained precarious and he died in London in poverty.
Works
Dates are usually the year a work was exhibited so may differ from date of production.
New entries have been made each time a work was exhibited. Click here for more information.
Locations
Address Gerrard Street (?) Soho London | View on map
1851 (Circa)
Address 45 Great Marlborough Street London | View on map
1853 (Circa) - 1860 (Circa)
Later addresses include: 90 Bolsover Street, Marylebone, London (living in a boarding house with artisans)
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Attended Great Exhibition Dinner for Foreign Sculptors (London), 1851
Exhibited at Yorkshire Fine Art Society, Fourth Exhibition, 1881
Multiple works
Exhibited at Leeds Mechanics' Institution, Yorkshire Exhibition of Arts and Manufactures, Leeds, 1875
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1853 - 1860
Exhibited 3 times, between one and three works on each occasion.
Descriptions of Practice
Listed under Sculptors Post Office London Directory, 1860 Post Office/Kelly London Directories
p. 1803
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1881
'Sculptor'
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1851
'Sculptor'
Sources
A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain, 1660-1851
2009
pp. 839-41
Catalogue of the Fourth Exhibition 1881
1881
Cat. Nos. 612, 616, 619, 620, 621, 622, pp. 61, 62
Catalogue of the Yorkshire Exhibition of Arts and Manufactures, Leeds, 1875
1875
Cat. Nos. G5, G6, pp. 287, 288
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1851
2004
Class: HO107; Piece: 1510; Folio: 525; Page: 7; GSU roll: 87844
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1881
2004
Class: RG11; Piece: 136; Folio: 120; Page: 2; Line: ; GSU roll: 1341030
England & Wales, FreeBMD Death Index, 1837-1915
2006
Name: Raffaele Monti
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1817
Date of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec 1881
Age at Death: 64
Registration district: Marylebone
Inferred County: London
Volume: 1a
Page: 353
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
2004
P. Ward-Jackson, ‘Monti, Raffaelle (1818–1881)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/64413, accessed 16 Oct 2009]
Post Office London Directory, 1860 Post Office/Kelly London Directories
1860
p. 1803
The Builder, Vol. IX, No. 432, 17 May 1851
17 May 1851
p. 312
The Builder, Vol. XV, 12 December 1857
12 December 1857
p. 726
Citing this record
'Raffaelle Monti', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib5_1206436406, accessed 02 Mar 2021]
