Frederick Smallfield (16 October 1829 – 10 September 1915)England & Wales, National Probate Calendar, 1915. "SMALLFIELD Frederick of 3 Crescent-road Church End Finchley Middlesex died 10 September 1915 at Netherbrook Nether-street Finchley Probate London 5 October to Philip Clisby Smallfield artist and Beatrice Clisby Smallfield spinster. Effects £826 4s." was an English Victorian painter in oils and

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, whose work shows a Pre-Raphaelite influence. Smallfield trained at the

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in the late 1840s, at the same time as various members of the

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, although he seems not to have been closely associated with them. In 1858, Smallfield's watercolours were praised in ''Academy Notes'' by

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. In 1860, he was elected Associate of the Watercolour Society (ARWS). He contributed two illustrations, ''The Shoeblack'' and ''A Christmas Invitation'', to ''Passages From Modern English Poets'' (1862), one called ''A Father's Lament'' to Robert Aris Willmott's ''English Sacred Poetry of the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries'' (1863) and another to ''The Industrial Arts of the Nineteenth Century at the Great Exhibition MDCCCLI'' by Sir

Matthew Digby Wyatt Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt (28 July 1820 – 21 May 1877) was a British architect and art historian who became Secretary of the Great Exhibition, Surveyor of the East India Company and the first Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Camb ...

, published by Day & Son, London, 1851–1853. He exhibited works in oil at the

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until the late 1870s. His work is now in the collections of the

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(''The Ringers of Launcells Tower'', 1887), Manchester City Galleries (''Early Lovers'', 1857), and the Atkinson Art Gallery at

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(''The Lost Glove'', 1858). Some of his drawings are in the

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, including a sketch of a wall decoration by John Gregory Crace.

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Passages from Modern English Poets
' at Archive.org – Smallfield's work is on plate 33. *
English Sacred Poetry of the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries
' – at Archive.org – – Smallfield's work is on page 338. {{DEFAULTSORT:Smallfield, Frederick 1829 births 1915 deaths 19th-century English painters English male painters 20th-century English painters English watercolourists Alumni of the Royal Academy Schools Pre-Raphaelite painters 20th-century English male artists 19th-century English male artists