Matthew Ridley Corbet (20 May 1850 – 25 June 1902) was a Victorian
neoclassical painter.
Life
Corbet was born on 20 May 1850 at
South Willingham
South Willingham is a village and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England, and partly within the Lincolnshire Wolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, . It is situated south of the A157 Lincoln to Louth road, wes ...
,
Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs.) is a county in the East Midlands of England, with a long coastline on the North Sea to the east. It borders Norfolk to the south-east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south-west, Leicestershire ...
, was son of the Rev. Andrew Corbet and Marianne Ridley. He was educated at
Cheltenham College
("Work Conquers All")
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.
He attended classes at the
Slade School of Art
The UCL Slade School of Fine Art (informally The Slade) is the art school of University College London (UCL) and is based in London, England. It has been ranked as the UK's top art and design educational institution. The school is organised as ...
under Alexander Davis Cooper and later at the
Royal Academy Schools
The Royal Academy of Arts (RA) is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly in London. Founded in 1768, it has a unique position as an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects. Its purpo ...
under
Frederic Leighton
Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton, (3 December 1830 – 25 January 1896), known as Sir Frederic Leighton between 1878 and 1896, was a British painter, draughtsman, and sculptor. His works depicted historical, biblical, and classical subjec ...
, President of the Academy. Corbet went to Italy in 1880 and met
Giovanni Costa, one of Leighton's friends in
Rome
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. For the next three years he stayed and painted with Costa, eventually becoming one of the leading figures of the
Macchiaioli
The Macchiaioli () were a group of Italian painters active in Tuscany in the second half of the nineteenth century. They strayed from antiquated conventions taught by the Italian art academies, and did much of their painting outdoors in order to ...
school.
He concentrated on Italian landscapes and exhibited at the
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 gallery proved crucial to the Aesthetic Movement because it provided ...
, the
New Gallery, the
Royal Academy
The Royal Academy of Arts (RA) is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly in London. Founded in 1768, it has a unique position as an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects. Its pur ...
and the
Paris Salon
The Salon (french: Salon), or rarely Paris Salon (French: ''Salon de Paris'' ), beginning in 1667 was the official art exhibition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Between 1748 and 1890 it was arguably the greatest annual or biennial art ...
.
His ''Sunrise'' gained a bronze medal at the
Paris Exhibition of 1889
The Exposition Universelle of 1889 () was a world's fair held in Paris, France, from 5 May to 31 October 1889. It was the fourth of eight expositions held in the city between 1855 and 1937. It attracted more than thirty-two million visitors. The ...
; and his ''Morning Glory'' (1894) and ''Val d'Arno Evening'' (1901), bought under the terms of the
Chantrey Bequest
Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey (7 April 1781 – 25 November 1841) was an English sculptor. He became the leading portrait sculptor in Regency era Britain, producing busts and statues of many notable figures of the time. Chantrey's most notable w ...
, are now in the
Tate Gallery
Tate is an institution that houses, in a network of four art galleries, the United Kingdom's national collection of British art, and international modern and contemporary art. It is not a government institution, but its main sponsor is the U ...
.
He died of
pneumonia
Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung primarily affecting the small air sacs known as alveoli. Symptoms typically include some combination of productive or dry cough, chest pain, fever, and difficulty breathing. The severity ...
at his residence in
St John's Wood
St John's Wood is a district in the City of Westminster, London, lying 2.5 miles (4 km) northwest of Charing Cross. Traditionally the northern part of the ancient parish and Metropolitan Borough of Marylebone, it extends east to west from ...
on 25 June 1902.
Family
In 1891 Corbet married
Edith Murch (née Edenborough).
Leicester Galleries
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References
;Attribution
External links
*
(ArtCyclopedia)
Paintings by M R Corbet
(Bridgeman Art Library)
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1850 births
1902 deaths
19th-century English painters
English male painters
20th-century English painters
Landscape artists
English portrait painters
People from East Lindsey District
Associates of the Royal Academy
Alumni of the Royal Academy Schools
20th-century English male artists
19th-century English male artists