Edith Edenborough was the second daughter, and fifth child,
of Henry (Ancestor #4) and Margaret Edenborough (née Stedman) and was born 28
December 1846 at Wollogorang, New South Wales, Australia.
In 1854 she travelled to the United Kingdom when her parents
returned to England with their six children after selling their large pastoral
property, Wollogorang, to John Chisholm. The first census to be held upon Edith’s
arrival in England was that of 1861 where Edith, then aged 14, was living with
her widowed mother at Kensington, Middlesex – her father Henry having died one
year after his return to England.
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| 1861 UK Census |
In 1870 Edith’s talent as an artist saw her being awarded a
silver medal at the South Kensington District Art School where she would also be
introduced to Prince Teck, a member
of German nobility and father of Queen Mary,
the wife of King George V.
Edith was twice
married: firstly to artist Arthur Murch (in 1873) with whom she lived with in Rome
while working with Giovanni Costa – the Italian landscape painter and patriotic
revolutionary; then in 1891, as the Widow Murch, she married Matthew Ridley
Corbet, another landscape artist of some note. By this time Edith was an acknowledged
landscape painter herself, closely associated with the Etruscan group,
and who had previously exhibited
many works at the Grosvenor and New Galleries of London. Following her marriage
to Corbet she exhibited primarily at the Royal Academy, visiting Italy but
living in London for the rest of her life.
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| Cicero's Villa and the Bay of Baiae painted by Edith Corbet in 1909 |
Edith Corbet (née Edenborough) died in 1920 aged 72.
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