Mattew Ridley Corbet,ARA:
1850-1902 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. . Related Artists to Mattew Ridley Corbet,ARA : | Maria Sibylla Merian | Chase, William Merritt | Mir, Joaquin | Georges Lemmen | William Turner |

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