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Matthew Ridley Corbet NPG 1867

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by John McLure Hamilton

Matthew Ridley Corbet was a portrait and landscape painter. Born in South Willingham, Lincolnshire, he studied art under Davis Cooper, then at the newly opened Slade School, and later at the Royal Academy schools. Corbet was much influenced by G. F. Watts until, in 1880, he went for three years to Italy, where he studied under Giovanni Costa in Rome and gave up portrait painting for landscape (mainly views of Italy) and occasional figure subjects. Corbet exhibited at the Grosvenor Gallery from 1871, at... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.