Frederick Smallfield
Frederick Smallfield (16 October 1829 – 10 September 1915) was an English Victorian painter in oils and watercolour, whose work shows a Pre-Raphaelite influence. 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.
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Frederick Smallfield
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- Name
- Frederick Smallfield
- Born
- 16 October 1829
- Birthplace
- Hackney, London
- Place of death
- Finchley, London
- Education
- Royal Academy Schools
- Occupation
- Artist
- Died
- 1915 · London.
- Nationality
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Languages
- English
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Frederick Smallfield (16 October 1829 – 10 September 1915) was an English Victorian painter in oils and watercolour, whose work shows a Pre-Raphaelite influence. 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.
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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, published by Day & Son, London, 1851–1853. 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), Manchester City Galleries (Early Lovers, 1857), and the Atkinson Art Gallery at Southport (The Lost Glove, 1858). Some of his drawings are in the Victoria and Albert Museum, including a sketch of a wall decoration by John Gregory Crace.
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Frederick Smallfield
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Frederick Smallfield
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• Name — Frederick Smallfield • Honorific Suffix — ARWS • Born — 16 October 1829 • Birthplace — Hackney, London • Place of death — Finchley, London • Education — Royal Academy Schools • Occupation — Artist
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Frederick Smallfield is recorded as painter and illustrator.
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1829
Frederick Smallfield was born in 1829 at London Borough of Hackney.
1915
Frederick Smallfield died in 1915 at London.
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