Matthew Ridley Corbet

Matthew Ridley Corbet
by John McLure Hamilton (1893)

Matthew Ridley Corbet (20 May 1850 –– 25 June1902)^[1] was a Victorian neoclassical painter who attended classes at the Slade School of Art under Alexander Davis Cooper and later at the Royal Academy Schools under Frederic Leighton, President of the Academy. Corbet went to Italy in 1880 and met Giovanni Costa, one of Leighton's friends in Rome. For the next three years he stayed and painted with Costa, eventually becoming one of the leading figures of the Macchiaioli school. He concentrated on Italian landscapes and exhibited at the Grosvenor Gallery, the New Gallery, the Royal Academy and the Paris Salon. In 1891 he married Edith Edenborough. ^[2]

References

1. ^ Matthew Ridley Corbet (1850-1902) (The Corbett One Name Study).
2. ^ Leicester Galleries

External links

• M R Corbet online (ArtCyclopedia)
• Paintings by M R Corbet (Bridgeman Art Library)

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Name	Corbet, Matthew Ridley
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Date of birth	20 May 1850
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Date of death	1902
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