Edith Corbet was a Victorian landscape painter, closely associated with the 'Etruscan' group of Italian and English painters who, in opposition to the tradition at the Italian academies and inspired by their French contemporaries of the Barbizon school, sought to paint outdoors – 'en plein air' – in order to capture the natural light, shade and colour. When she in 1891 married Matthew Ridley Corbet (1850–1902), one of the group's most important artists, her association with the group was cemented. She was born Edith Edinborough in Australia and was exhibiting in London by 1871. Her first marriage was with the painter Arthur Murch (1836–1885), and they lived together in Rome at the beginning of the 1880s, where she worked with Giovanni Costa, the leader of the Etruscans. Between 1880 and 1890 Edith Murch exhibited many works at the Grosvenor Gallery and the New Gallery in London. After her marriage to Corbet, she primarily exhibited at the Royal Academy, visiting Italy but living in London for the rest of her life. Edith Corbet's works also contain the Etruscans’ preoccupation with harmonious and subdued opaque colour. She too painted panoramic landscapes on elongated horizontal canvases as can be seen in the present painting.