Matthew Ridley Corbet ARA (20 May 1850 – 25 June 1902) was a Victorian neoclassical painter.

Corbet travelled to Italy in 1880 and met the painter Giovanni Costa, a friend of Leighton's living in Rome.

Corbet stayed in Italy, and spent the next three years there, where he lived, and painted with Costa, becoming one of the leading figures of the Macchiaioli school.

His paintings Sunrise, awarded a bronze medal at the Paris Exhibition of 1889; Morning Glory (1894), and Val d'Arno Evening (1901), bought under the terms of the Chantrey Bequest, are now in the Tate Gallery.

[2] Corbet lived for a period in Kensington, where in 1876 he had a house, Peel Cottage, built to be his artists’ studio and residence.