{{short description|English painter}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2015}} {{Infobox person | name = Frederick Smallfield | honorific_suffix = ARWS | image = Early Lovers - Frederick Smallfield.jpg | caption = The artist's ''Early Lovers'', 1857 | alt = | birth_date = 16 October 1829<ref>''England & Wales, Non-Conformist and Non-Parochial Registers, 1567-1970''</ref> | birth_place = Hackney, London | death_date = {{dda|1915|9|10|1829|10|16|df=y}} | death_place = Finchley, London | alma_mater = Royal Academy Schools | occupation = Artist }}
'''Frederick Smallfield''' {{Post-nominals|post-noms=ARWS}} (16 October 1829 – 10 September 1915)<ref name=probcal>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."</ref> was an English Victorian painter in oils and watercolour, whose work shows a Pre-Raphaelite influence.<ref name="VW">{{cite web|url=https://www.victorianweb.org/painting/smallfield/|title=Frederick Smallfield, 1825–1915|work=The Victorian Web|accessdate=15 September 2013}}</ref>
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.<ref name="VW" />
In 1858, Smallfield's watercolours were praised in ''Academy Notes'' by John Ruskin.<ref name="VW" /> In 1860, he was elected Associate of the Watercolour Society (ARWS).<ref name="VW" /> He contributed two illustrations, ''The Shoeblack'' and ''A Christmas Invitation'', to ''Passages From Modern English Poets'' (1862),<ref name="VW" /> 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, published by Day & Son, London, 1851–1853.<ref name="VandA2">{{cite web|url=https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O595372/design-crace-john-gregory/|title=Design|publisher=Victoria and Albert Museum|accessdate=15 September 2013}}</ref>
He exhibited works in oil at the Royal Academy until the late 1870s.<ref name="VW" />
His work is now in the collections of the Royal Institution of Cornwall (''The Ringers of Launcells Tower'', 1887),<ref name="YP-Ringers">{{cite web|url=https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-ringers-of-launcells-tower-14469|title=The Ringers of Launcells Tower|work=Art UK|accessdate=15 September 2013}}</ref> Manchester City Galleries (''Early Lovers'', 1857),<ref name="YP-EL">{{cite web|url=https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/early-lovers-206039|title=Early Lovers|work=Art UK|accessdate=15 September 2013}}</ref> and the Atkinson Art Gallery at Southport (''The Lost Glove'', 1858).<ref name="YP-LG">{{cite web|url=https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-lost-glove-66283|title=The Lost Glove|work=Art UK|accessdate=15 September 2013}}</ref> Some of his drawings are in the Victoria and Albert Museum,<ref name="VandA">{{cite web|url=https://collections.vam.ac.uk/search/?listing_type=&offset=0&limit=15&narrow=&extrasearch=&q=Frederick+Smallfield&commit=Search&quality=0&objectnamesearch=&placesearch=&after=&after-adbc=AD&before=&before-adbc=AD&namesearch=&materialsearch=&mnsearch=&locationsearch=|title=V & A search for 'Frederick Smallfield'|publisher=Victoria and Albert Museum|accessdate=15 September 2013}}</ref> including a sketch of a wall decoration by John Gregory Crace.<ref name="VandA2" />
== References ==
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== External links ==
* ''[https://archive.org/details/passagesfrommode00juni Passages from Modern English Poets]'' at Archive.org – Smallfield's work is on plate 33. * ''[https://archive.org/details/englishsacredpo00brotgoog English Sacred Poetry of the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries]'' – at Archive.org – – Smallfield's work is on page 338.
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