On the Wash Near Pisa (oil on board)

Edith Edenborough was married to Arthur Murch from the mid 70s until his death in 1885. They lived for much of the time in Rome. She was a friend and painting companion of Giovanni Costa, the inspiration of both the Macchiaioli, the Italian painters of light in the open air, and of the group of English painters with similar aims that became known as the Etruscan School. Olivia Rossetti Agresti wrote: 'Costa had a very high opinion of this artist's gifts and used to remember with pleasure how on that occasion they used to go out together to paint from nature...' (Agresti, 1904). Edith married Matthew Ridley Corbet in 1891. The marshy plain of the River Arno to the west of Pisa where it flows into the sea, the 'Wash', is now a National Park, the Migliarino San Rossore Massaciuccoli. The Pisan Hills form a dramatic backdrop. Olivia Rossetti Agresti (1907) Giovanni Costa, his life, work, and times London: Grant Richards 1904 Edenborough exhibited this painting in the New Gallery in 1888, alongside another picture called In the Roman Campagna no 216, and Costa's The First Smile of Morn no 77