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Matthew Ridley Corbet ARA (20 May 1850 – 25 June 1902) was a Victorian neoclassical painter.[1]

Matthew Ridley Corbet
Matthew Ridley Corbet, by John McLure Hamilton (1893)
Born	(1850-05-20)20 May 1850 London
Died	25 June 1902(1902-06-25) (aged 52)
Nationality	British
Known for	Oil landscape
Spouse	Edith Corbet

Life

Corbet was born on 20 May 1850 at South Willingham, Lincolnshire, was son of the Rev. Andrew Corbet and Marianne Ridley. He was educated at Cheltenham College. [2]

He 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.

His Sunrise gained a bronze medal at the Paris Exhibition of 1889; and his Morning Glory (1894) and Val d'Arno Evening (1901), bought under the terms of the Chantrey Bequest, are now in the Tate Gallery.[2]

He died of pneumonia at his residence in St John's Wood on 25 June 1902.[3]

Family

In 1891 Corbet married Edith Murch (née Edenborough).[4]

References

Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rolleston, Humphry Davy (1912). "Corbet, Matthew Ridley". Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 416.

External links

• 9 artworks by or after Matthew Ridley Corbet at the Art UK site
• M R Corbet online (ArtCyclopedia)
• Paintings by M R Corbet (Bridgeman Art Library)
• Profile on Royal Academy of Arts Collections

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[fr] Matthew Ridley Corbet

Matthew Ridley Corbet, né le 20 mai 1850 à South Willingham (en) dans le comté du Lincolnshire et décédé le 25 juin 1902 à Londres dans le district de St John's Wood, est un peintre britannique.

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