Frederick Smallfield

{{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 1829England & Wales, Non-Conformist and Non-Parochial Registers, 1567-1970

| 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)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 watercolour, whose work shows a Pre-Raphaelite influence.{{cite web|url=http://www.victorianweb.org/painting/smallfield/|title=Frederick Smallfield, 1825–1915|work=The Victorian Web|accessdate=15 September 2013}}

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.

In 1858, Smallfield's watercolours were praised in Academy Notes by John Ruskin. 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, published by Day & Son, London, 1851–1853.{{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}}

He exhibited works in oil at the Royal Academy until the late 1870s.

His work is now in the collections of the Royal Institution of Cornwall (The Ringers of Launcells Tower, 1887),{{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}} Manchester City Galleries (Early Lovers, 1857),{{cite web|url=https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/early-lovers-206039|title=Early Lovers|work=Art UK|accessdate=15 September 2013}} and the Atkinson Art Gallery at Southport (The Lost Glove, 1858).{{cite web|url=https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-lost-glove-66283|title=The Lost Glove|work=Art UK|accessdate=15 September 2013}} Some of his drawings are in the Victoria and Albert Museum,{{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}} including a sketch of a wall decoration by John Gregory Crace.