Born in London, he was son of Henry Corbould and grandson of Richard Corbould, both painters. He was a pupil of Henry Sass, and a student at the Royal Academy Schools. In 1842 his watercolour of The Woman taken in Adultery was purchased by Albert, Prince Consort. Nine years later, he was appointed instructor of historical painting to the Royal Family. He continued to teach its members for twenty-one years.[3]
On 28 September 1839 to Fanny Jemima (died 1850), daughter of the engraver Charles Heath and his wife. They had three daughters, one of whom, Isabel Fanny (Mrs. G. H. Heywood), had two daughters who became artists, Mrs. Eveline Corbould-Ellis and Mrs. Weatherley;
On 7 August 1851 to Anne Middleton Wilson (died 1866), by whom he had two sons, Ridley Edward Arthur Lamothe (1854–1887) and Victor Albert Louis Edward (born 1866); and
On 15 January 1868 to Anne Melis Sanders, by whom he had one son and one daughter.
Corbould died at Kensington on 18 January 1905.[3] He has a memorial tablet in St Mary Abbots church in Kensington, London. A grandson Leonard Wyburd became a noted designer.[4]
Works
In 1834, 1835, and 1836 Corbould won gold medals of the Society of Arts, in 1834 with a watercolour of the Fall of Phaethon, and in the last two years with models of St. George and the Dragon and a Chariot Race, from Homer. His first exhibits in the Royal Academy in 1835 included a model (Cyllarus and Hylonome); and he submitted designs for four pieces of sculpture for Blackfriars Bridge.[3]
Corbould was known for his water-colours, in which he produced subjects illustrating literature (mainly from Chaucer, Spenser, and Shakespeare), history, and daily life. A few of his pictures are in oils (e.g. The Canterbury Pilgrims, 1874). He started exhibiting at the New Water Colour Society in 1837, becoming a member in the same year. His early exhibits included The Canterbury Pilgrims assembled at the old Tabard Inn. Many of his works were acquired by Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and his royal pupils, including an illustration of Alfred Tennyson's Morte d'Arthur presented by Queen Victoria to Princess Louise, and Henry VI welcomed to London after his Coronation in Paris, and The Iconoclasts of Basle, acquired by the Empress Frederick for the imperial collection in Berlin.[3]
Apart from the royal collections, one of the largest collections of his works was that of George Strutt of Belper. A watercolour Lady Godiva went to the National Gallery of New South Wales.[3]
Poulter, George Collingwood Brownlow; Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and Natural History (1935). The Corbould genealogy. Published for the Suffolk institute of archaeology by W. E. Harrison & sons. pp. 36, 37. (web version: "Section VI. Edward Henry Corbould, R . I.". The Corbould genealogy(PDF). corbould.com. pp. 37–39 (PDF 2–4).)
External links
The Last., a painting for The Keepsake, 1838, engraved by Henry Cook, with a poetical illustration attributed to Letitia Elizabeth Landon.