Frederick SmallfieldARWS (16 October 1829 – 10 September 1915)[2] was an English Victorian painter in oils and watercolour, whose work shows a Pre-Raphaelite influence.[3]
Smallfield trained at the Royal Academy Schools in the late 1840s, at the same time as various members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, although he seems not to have been closely associated with them.[3]
In 1858, Smallfield's watercolours were praised in Academy NotesbyJohn Ruskin.[3] In 1860, he was elected Associate of the Watercolour Society (ARWS).[3] He contributed two illustrations, The Shoeblack and A Christmas Invitation, to Passages From Modern English Poets (1862),[3] one called A Father's LamenttoRobert 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, published by Day & Son, London, 1851–1853.[4]
He exhibited works in oil at the Royal Academy until the late 1870s.[3]
^England & Wales, Non-Conformist and Non-Parochial Registers, 1567-1970
^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."
