Matthew Ridley Corbet (20 May 1850 –– 25 June1902) was a Victorian neoclassical

Neoclassicism

Neoclassicism is the name given to Western movements in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that draw inspiration from the "classical" art and culture of Ancient Greece or Ancient Rome...

 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

Giovanni Costa

Giovanni Costa , known as Nino, was an Italian landscape painter and revolutionary.-Biography:Costa was born in Rome...

, one of Leighton's friends in Rome

Rome

Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...

. For the next three years he stayed and painted with Costa, eventually becoming one of the leading figures of the Macchiaioli

Macchiaioli

The Macchiaioli were a group of Italian painters active in Tuscany in the second half of the nineteenth century, who, breaking with the antiquated conventions taught by the Italian academies of art, did much of their painting outdoors in order to capture natural light, shade, and colour...

 school. He concentrated on Italian landscapes and exhibited at the Grosvenor Gallery

Grosvenor Gallery

The Grosvenor Gallery was an art gallery in London founded in 1877 by Sir Coutts Lindsay and his wife Blanche. Its first directors were J. Comyns Carr and Charles Hallé...

, the New Gallery

New Gallery

New Gallery may be:*the English name for the Neue Galerie, a museum of German art in New York*New Gallery , a 19th century gallery in London*New Gallery , an art museum in Kassel...

, the Royal Academy

Royal Academy

The Royal Academy of Arts is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly, London. The Royal Academy of Arts has a unique position in being an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects whose purpose is to promote the creation, enjoyment and...

 and the Paris Salon

Paris Salon

The Salon , or rarely Paris Salon , beginning in 1725 was the official art exhibition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France. Between 1748–1890 it was the greatest annual or biannual art event in the Western world...

. In 1891 he married Edith Edenborough

Edith Corbet

Edith Corbet , was a Victorian landscape painter, having close associations with the Macchiaioli group , who, in a break with tradition, painted outdoors in order to capture natural light effects and favoured a panoramic format for their paintings...

.

External links

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